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    The Adventure of the Red Circle: "It’s every man’s business to see justice done."
    The Adventure of the Red Circle: "It’s every man’s business to see justice done."
    The Adventure of the Red Circle: "It’s every man’s business to see justice done."
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    The Adventure of the Red Circle: "It’s every man’s business to see justice done."

    By Arthur Conan Doyle

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    If ever a writer needed an introduction Arthur Conan Doyle would not be considered that man. After all, Sherlock Holmes is perhaps the foremost literary detective of any age. Add to this canon his stories of science fiction and his poems, his historical novels, his plays, his political campaigning, his efforts in establishing a Court of Appeal and there is little room for anything else. Except he was also an exceptional writer of short stories of the horrific and macabre. Something very different from what you might expect. Born in Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 at 11 Picardy Place, Edinburgh, Scotland. From 1876 - 1881 he studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh following which he was employed as a doctor on the Greenland whaler Hope of Peterhead in 1880 and, after his graduation, as a ship's surgeon on the SS Mayumba during a voyage to the West African coast in 1881. Arriving in Portsmouth in June of that year with less than £10 (£700 today) to his name, he set up a medical practice at 1 Bush Villas in Elm Grove, Southsea. The practice was initially not very successful. While waiting for patients, Conan Doyle again began writing stories and composed his first novel The Mystery of Cloomber. Although he continued to study and practice medicine his career was now firmly set as a writer. And thereafter great works continued to pour out of him.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMiniature Masterpieces
    Release dateNov 1, 2017
    ISBN9781787375048
    The Adventure of the Red Circle: "It’s every man’s business to see justice done."
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    Arthur Conan Doyle

    Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician. He is the creator of the Sherlock Holmes character, writing his debut appearance in A Study in Scarlet. Doyle wrote notable books in the fantasy and science fiction genres, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels.

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      The Adventure of the Red Circle - Arthur Conan Doyle

      The Adventure of the Red Circle by Arthur Conan Doyle

      If ever a writer needed an introduction Arthur Conan Doyle would not be considered that man. After all, Sherlock Holmes is perhaps the foremost literary detective of any age. Add to this canon his stories of science fiction and his poems, his historical novels, his plays, his political campaigning, his efforts in establishing a Court Of Appeal and there is little room for anything else. Except he was also an exceptional writer of short stories of the horrific and macabre. Something very different from what you might expect.

      Born in Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 at 11 Picardy Place, Edinburgh, Scotland. From 1876 - 1881 he studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh following which he was employed as a doctor on the Greenland whaler Hope of Peterhead in 1880 and, after his graduation, as a ship's surgeon on the SS Mayumba during a voyage to the West African coast in 1881.  Arriving in Portsmouth in June of that year with less than £10 (£700 today) to his name, he set up a medical practice at 1 Bush Villas in Elm Grove, Southsea. The practice was initially not very successful. While waiting for patients, Conan Doyle again began writing stories and composed his first novel The Mystery of Cloomber. Although he continued to study and practice medicine his career was now firmly set as a writer.  And thereafter great works continued to pour out of him.

      Index of Contents

      The Adventure of the Red Circle

      Chapter I

      Chapter II

      Arthur Conan Doyle – A Short Biography

      Arthur Conan Doyle – A Concise Bibliography

      THE ADVENTURE OF THE RED CIRCLE

      CHAPTER I

      Well Mrs. Warren, I cannot see that you have any particular cause for uneasiness, nor do I understand why I, whose time is of some value, should interfere in the matter.  I really have other things to engage me.  So spoke Sherlock Holmes and turned back to the great scrapbook in which he was arranging and indexing some of his recent material.

      But the landlady had the pertinacity and also the cunning of her sex. She held her ground firmly.

      You arranged an affair for a lodger of mine last year, she said—Mr. Fairdale Hobbs.

      Ah, yes—a simple matter.

      But he would never cease talking of it—your kindness, sir, and the way in which you brought light into the darkness.  I remembered his words when I was in doubt and darkness myself.  I know you could if you only would.

      Holmes was accessible upon the side of flattery, and also, to do him justice, upon the side of kindliness.  The two forces made him lay down his gum brush with a sigh of resignation and push back his chair.

      "Well, well, Mrs. Warren, let us hear about it, then.  You don't object to tobacco, I take it?  Thank you, Watson—the matches! You are uneasy, as I understand, because your new lodger remains in his rooms and you cannot see him.  Why, bless you, Mrs.

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