The Adventures and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Sterling Unabridged Classics Series)

by Arthur Conan Doyle, Scott McKowen (Illustrator)

Overview

The illustrations for this series were created by Scott McKowen, who, with his wife Christina Poddubiuk, operates Punch & Judy Inc., a company specializing in design and illustration for theater and performing arts. Their projects often involve research into the visual aspects of historical settings and characters. Christina is a theater set and costume designer and contributed advice on the period clothing for the illustrations.

Scott created these drawings in scratchboard ­ an engraving medium which evokes the look of popular art from the period of these stories. Scratchboard is an illustration board with a specifically prepared surface of hard white chalk. A thin layer of black ink is rolled over the surface, and lines are drawn by hand with a sharp knife by scraping through the ink layer to expose the white surface underneath. The finished drawings are then scanned and the color is added digitally.

It’s elementary—there’s no more intriguing detective than Sherlock Holmes, with his unequalled powers of deduction, and no better mysteries than the tricky ones that only he can solve. Here are some of the finest Holmes stories, recounted by his trusty friend and assistant, Dr. Watson.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781402714535
Publisher:	Sterling
Publication date:	10/01/2004
Series:	Sterling Unabridged Classics
Pages:	576
Sales rank:	179,746
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.10(h) x 1.80(d)
Lexile:	NC1070L (what's this?)
Age Range:	10 Years

About the Author

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was both a doctor and a believer in spirits, which may partly explain why his Sherlock Holmes is one of literature's most beloved detectives: Holmes always approaches his cases with the gentility and logic of a scientist, but the stories are suffused with an aura of the supernatural. Narrated by devoted assistant Dr. John H. Watson, Holmes's adventures were so addictive that fans protested the master deducer's "death" in 1893 and Doyle had to resurrect him.

Date of Birth:

May 22, 1859

Date of Death:

July 7, 1930

Place of Birth:

Edinburgh, Scotland

Place of Death:

Crowborough, Sussex, England

Education:

Edinburgh University, B.M., 1881; M.D., 1885

Table of Contents

	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
	A Scandal in Bohemia	3
Chapter 15
Chapter 216
Chapter 327
	A Case of Identity	31
	The Red-Headed League	51
	The Boscombe Valley Mystery	77
	The Five Orange Pips	103
	The Man with the Twisted Lip	125
	The Blue Carbuncle	151
	The Speckled Band	175
	The Engineer's Thumb	203
	The Noble Bachelor	227
	The Beryl Coronet	251
	The Copper Beeches	279
	The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
	Silver Blaze	309
	The Yellow Face	337
	The Stockbroker's Clerk	359
	The Gloria Scott	379
	The Musgrave Ritual	399
	The Religate Squires	421
	The Crooked Man	443
	The Resident Patient	463
	The Greek Interpreter	485
	The Naval Treaty	507
	The Final Problem	543
	Questions, Questions, Questions	565
	About the Author, About the Illustrator	569