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The Valley of Fear is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. It is loosely based on the Molly Maguires and Pinkerton agent James McParland. [1] The story was first published in the Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915. The first book edition was copyrighted in 1914, and it was first ...
ISBN. 0-9512072-0-2. Followed by. The Snapper. The Commitments (1987) (originally to be called The Partitions [1]) is a novel by Irish writer Roddy Doyle. [2] The first episode in The Barrytown Trilogy, it is about a group of unemployed young people in the north side of Dublin, Ireland, who start a soul band.
Brian Doyle (American writer) Brian James Patrick Doyle was an American writer. [1] [2] He was a recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature and three Pushcart Prizes. [3] [4] He lived with his wife and three children in Portland, Oregon. In May 2017, he died at the age of 60 due to a brain tumor.
Sherlock Holmes, Chap. 6, p. 111. The Sign of the Four (1890), also called The Sign of Four, is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes by British writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote four novels and 56 short stories featuring the fictional detective.
Mary Miller has always been an outcast. As a child, she fell into the hot burn - a torrent of warm chemical run-off from the local coal mine - and her hair turned white. Initially she was treated with sympathy, but all that changed a few days later, when the young man who pushed her in died in an accident. Now many years later, Mary is a single ...
Nationality. Scottish. George Edward Challenger is a fictional character in a series of fantasy and science fiction stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Unlike Doyle's self-controlled, analytical character, Sherlock Holmes, Professor Challenger is an aggressive, hot-tempered, dominating figure. Like Sherlock Holmes, Professor Challenger was based ...
21149467. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle is a historical novel by the American author Avi published in 1990. The book is marketed towards children at a reading level of grades 5–8. [2] The book chronicles the evolution of the title character as she is pushed outside her naive existence and learns about life aboard a ship crossing ...
