{"product_id":"9781461661276","title":"The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Reader: From Sherlock Holmes to Spiritualism","description":"Best known as the creator of the consulting detective par excellence Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a man of wide-ranging interests and talents, and his literary output went far beyond his Holmes and Watson stories. \u003ci\u003eThe Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Reader\u003c\/i\u003e collects works from all the genres in which he wrote, including mysteries, historical adventure tales, science fiction stories, ghost stories, plays, memoirs, essays on spiritualism (in which he was a dedicated believer) and reports on the Boer War and World War I. This collection features the account of Watson's first meeting with Holmes from \u003ci\u003eA Study in Scarlet\u003c\/i\u003e, an account of the dinosaurs inhabiting \u003ci\u003eThe Lost World\u003c\/i\u003e, tales of Doyle's Napoleonic hero Brigadier Gerard, a condemnation of Belgium's exploitation of the Congo, and the complete text of his apocalyptic book \u003ci\u003eThe Poison Belt\u003c\/i\u003e, in addition to several other stories and excerpts.","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield Publishers, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47155475448048,"sku":"9781461661276","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781461661276_p0.jpg?v=1769889778","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781461661276","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}