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The Complete Brigadier Gerard Stories (Canongate Classics S.)

The Complete Brigadier Gerard Stories (Canongate Classics S.)

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Author), Owen Dudley Edwards (Introduction)

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    Paperback 2001

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Synopsis

A complete collection of the Brigadier Etienne Gerard stories by Arthur Conan Doyle set during the time of Napoleon and his followers, and the awakened nationalisms of the peoples who they enraged. The book includes a forgotten precusor to the stories called A Foreign Office Romance.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 400
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Published: 01 Jan 2001
ISBN 10: 0862415349
ISBN 13: 9780862415341

Author Bio
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859 and died in 1930. He studied medicine at Edinburgh University and later set up practice as a doctor at Southsea. It was while waiting for patients to arrive that he began to write and it was the success of his many adventure stories that allowed him to actively pursue the many causes that captured his attention, whether it was divorce law reform or the issuing of steel helmets to troops. However, it is for the enduring appeal of his Sherlock Holmes' stories that Conan Doyle will always be remembered. Sherlock Holmes is the world's most famous consulting detective. He resides at 221B Baker Street in London, where prospective clients can always reach him. While the police are known to make extensive use of his talents and the criminal fraternity to tremble with fear or fury at mere mention of his name, it is to the most bizarre or thoroughly inexplicable of mysteries that Sherlock Holmes - together with his dogged companio