Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's A case of identity Read by David Timson
A Case of Identity, with music by Dvorak and Grieg, tells the case of Miss Mary Sutherland, a woman with a substantial income, whose fiancé has disappeared. A truly elementary case, much as it puzzles Watson, barely challenges Holmes detective skills. The cool Observations and swift action of Mr. Sherlock Holmes resolves all.
A new edition of the pocket guide to one of English literature's best loved and finest creations, Sherlock Holmes. Holmes was the brainchild of Portsmouth GP Arthur Conan Doyle. A writer of historical romance, Doyle became unhappy that the detective's enormous success eclipsed his other work, and killed him off. But, faced with an enormous backlash from the public, he had no choice but to bring him back from the grave to face more puzzling mysteries. Holmes is an iconic fictional creature, and has been immortalised in countless film, TV and radio productions.
'It is 1968. Paddy Clarke is ten years old, breathless with discovery: He reads with a child's voraciousness, collecting facts the way adults collect grey hairs and parking tickets. Doyle captures the speech pattern of childhood brilliantly, the weird logic of incessant questions, the non-sequiturs and wonderments ... Like all the great comic writers Roddy Doyle has become an explorer of the heart.' Joseph O'Connor, Irish Times
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Libba Bray - Gemma Doyle trilogy (3 books): A Great and Terrible Beauty + Rebel Angels + The Sweet Far ThingA Great and Terrible Beauty + Rebel Angels + The Sweet Far Thing
A Victorian boarding school story, a Gothic mansion mystery, a gossipy romp about a clique of girlfriends, and a dark other-worldly fantasy--jumble them all together and you have this complicated and unusual novel.
