Danger! and Other Stories

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“The Title story of this volume was written about eighteen months before the outbreak of the war, and was intended to direct public attention to the great danger which threatened this country. It is a matter of history how fully this warning has been justified and how, even down to the smallest details, the prediction has been fulfilled. The writer must, however, most thankfully admit that what he did not foresee was the energy and ingenuity with which the navy has found means to meet the new conditions. The great silent battle which has been fought beneath the waves has ended in the repulse of an armada far more dangerous than that of Spain.” – From the Preface of this book

Arthur Conan Doyle KStJ, DL was a Scottish novelist and physician. On top of the runs of tales about the exploits of Sherlock Holmes and his associate Dr John Watson for which he is famous, Arthur penned on a numerous variety of themes, both fictional and non-fictional. Arthur studied at the University of Edinburgh Medical School, where he was a student of Joseph Bell, whose deductive systems encouraged his student much well that the instructor turned into the principal example for Holmes. Arthur started his authorship while still learning, and he had his first book, The Mystery of the Sasassa Valley, printed in Chambers’s Journal. He kept on producing short stories both fictional and non-fictional, during his literary career, and had more than 200 tales and essays circulated.

Arthur wrote the short tale, A Scandal in Bohemia, in The Strand Magazine, a “story which would change his life”, conferring to his biographer, Andrew Lycett, as it presented Holmes and Watson to a large crowd; the two players had given the plotline of Arthur’s first fictional book, A Study in Scarlet, which was printed in Beeton’s Christmas Annual. The tale in The Strand was incorporated in 6 series, circulated in consecutive months.
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