Adventures in Russia 1881

<p>Here is the second of the “lost” diaries of young Arthur Conan Doyle written in 1881 while he was a twenty-two-year-old student at the University of Edinburgh Medical School. In this rollicking story of high adventure Arthur Conan Doyle serves as a British spy along with the legendary Doctor Joseph Bell—who became the real-life inspiration for the world’s most famous literary detective Sherlock Holmes. This diary details how Doyle and Dr. Bell journey to Russia on a secret forensic mission to save Europe from war. Peopled with Doyle’s real-life contemporaries—including Dostoyesky and Rasputin it is an exciting mix of murder mystery literary history and humour sure to please Sherlock Holmes fans everywhere!</p>