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  • Published: 12 October 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141199719
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $26.99

The Five Orange Pips and Other Cases




The new paperback series: Penguin English Library

'He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson ... He sits motionless, like a spider in the centre of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them'

Sherlock Holmes, scourge of criminals everywhere, whether they be lurking in London's foggy backstreets or plotting behind the walls of an idyllic country mansion, and his faithful colleague Dr Watson solve these breathtaking and perplexing mysteries. In The Five Orange Pips and Other Cases we encounter some of his most famous and devilishly difficult problems.

  • Published: 12 October 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141199719
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $26.99

About the author

Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 in Edinburgh. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and began to write stories while he was a student. Over his life he produced more than thirty books, 150 short stories, poems, plays and essays across a wide range of genres. His most famous creation is the detective Sherlock Holmes, who he introduced in his first novel A Study in Scarlet (1887).

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