Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Edited by Shafquat Towheed
Arthur Conan Doyle’s second Sherlock Holmes novel is both a detective story and an imperial romance. Ostensibly the story of Mary Morstan, a beautiful young woman enlisting the help of Holmes to find her vanished father and solve the mystery of her receipt of a perfect pearl on the same date each year, it gradually uncovers a tale of treachery and human greed. The action audaciously ranges from penal settlements on the Andaman Islands to the suburban comfort of south London, and from the opium-fuelled violence of Agra Fort during the ‘Indian Mutiny’ to the cocaine-induced contemplation of Holmes’ own Baker Street.”
Donated by Broadview Press
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