Southsea Stories And Beyond (paperback edition)

<p>Southsea Stories and Beyond the Complete Uncollected Stories of Arthur Conan Doyle.</p><p><br></p><p>(Note: Paperback copies available at a special price of ��15 post-free in the UK from the publisher at www.lifeisamazing.co.uk)</p><p><br></p><p>While working as a GP in Portsmouth's seaside resort of Southsea between 1882 and 1890 young Arthur Conan Doyle produced short stories and novels at an astonishing rate. </p><p><br></p><p>Some of his anonymously-published tales were forgotten only to be rediscovered around a century later in 1983. They are included here along with more recent discoveries collected in book form for the very first time.</p><p><br></p><p>Conan Doyle wrote comedies tragedies horror supernatural and earthbound mysteries unlikely adventures from the outposts of Empire and much more besides. All became part of his story-telling palette.</p><p><br></p><p>In these pages you will meet a military medic a super-shrewd observer of people a terrified occupant of a lonely country house a diamond thief a masked visitor and many other characters imagined by Conan Doyle as he inched ever-closer to his greatest creation: Sherlock Holmes.</p><p><br></p><p>While many associate Holmes with London this book reveals how the detective was initially conceived in Southsea - and why Portsmouth will forever be Sherlock's home.</p>