The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes: 37 Short Stories and a Novel from the "Strand Magazine"

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His very person and appearance were such as to strike the attention of the most casual observer. In height he was rather over six feet, and so excessively lean that he seemed to be considerably taller. His eyes were sharp and piercing, save during those intervals of torpor to which I have alluded; and his thin, hawk-like nose gave his whole expression an air of alertness and decision. His chin, too, had the prominence and squareness which mark the man of determination. His hands were invariably blotted with ink and stained with chemicals, yet he was possessed of extraordinary delicacy of touch, as I frequently had occasion to observe when I watched him manipulating his fragile philosophical instruments. [ A Study in Scarlet 8] No. 14-1128 Leslie S. Klinger v. Conan Doyle Estate, Ltd" (PDF). 2014-10-30. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-30 . Retrieved 2020-06-17. There is no doubt that my hands down favourite of the entire collection was The Hound of the Baskervilles, but make no mistake I loved it all.

The Complete Illustrated Novels of Sherlock Holmes (Royal

Having been a fan of these stories and the main characters for years, I'd like to make two observations: Terraced houses, also known as townhouses or row houses, are rows of dwellings of uniform height and similar appearance which share common walls between them.

During those thirteen years I had read the stories again and again, and listened to them countless times in audio book form and came across details which should have been reflected in the original illustration. And that uniqueness is what compelled me to draw the illustration in the first place. 221B Baker Street is a main character in the stories; a unique fictional character that fires the imagination. Why anyone would want to squeeze it into the shape of a common terraced house is beyond me.

The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes: 37 Short Stories

I became curious which of the Holmes stories did not get adapted and found a list at the bottom of the Wikipedia entry below. How can you tell? The example of patient suffering is in itself the most precious of all lessons to an impatient world.’” Now, I won't even try to review so much material, as the stories are many and vary widely. All I can say is that I enjoyed the whole collection in general, specially the novels, but then I'm not that keen a reader of tales and short stories. I created this version completely from scratch using an iPad Pro and an Apple pencil in a free vector illustration program called Vectornator.

I’ve been thinking of Doyle’s spiritualism lately and what Holmes would have made of it all. I can’t help feeling that there might have been words between the two of them and tuts and the slow shaking of the head. That is, I sometimes wonder if Holmes, the character, was more necessary, in a sense, than Doyle the writer. I know that sounds like a silly thing to say, but I think it might be at least a little true too.