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The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes

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An edition of The Patient's Eyes (2001)

The Patient's Eyes

The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes

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As a young medical student, Arthur Conan Doyle, famously studied under the pioneering forensic detective Dr. Joseph Bell. Taking this as a starting point, author David Pirie has woven a compelling thriller which partners Bell (widely believed to be the model for Sherlock Holmes himself) and Doyle as innovators in criminal investigation, exploring the strange underworld of violence and sexual hypocrisy running below the surface of the Victorian era.

When the impoverished young Arthur Doyle opens his first medical practice, he is puzzled by the symptoms presented by Heather Grace, a sweet young woman whose parents have died tragically several years before. Heather has a strange eye complaint, but is also upset by visions of a phantom bicyclist who vanishes as soon as he is followed. This enigma, however, is soon overshadowed as Doyle finds himself embroiled in more threatening events-including the murder of a rich Spanish businessman-that call for the advice of the eminent Dr Bell. But despite coming to Doyle's aid, Dr Bell dismisses the murder of Senor Garcia as a rather unimportant diversion from the incident which Bell considers to have real criminal implications: the matter of the patient's eyes and the solitary cyclist.

David Pirie gained rave reviews for his screenplay depicting the "real" Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Joseph Bell, in the two part, Edgar-nominated TV series "Murder Rooms." Treading that same critically acclaimed ground, The Patient's Eyes is the first in a stand-alone cycle of novels written from Doyle's point of view that include a whole new perspective on the adventures of Bell and Doyle and the genesis of the best-known detective in all of mystery literature. Tense and dramatic The Patient's Eyes marks the debut of a brilliant new crime novelist.

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Pegasus Books
Language
English
Pages
256

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The Patient's Eyes: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes
June 1, 2007, Pegasus Books
Paperback in English
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The Patient's Eyes: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes (A Dr. Doyle/Dr. Bell Mystery)
August 18, 2003, St. Martin's Minotaur
Mass Market Paperback in English
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The Patient's Eyes: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes
2003 August, St. Martin's Paperbacks
Mass Market Paperback in English - St. Martin's pbks. ed.
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The Patient's Eyes: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes
2002 May, St. Martin's Minotaur
Hardcover in English - 1st U.S. ed.
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The patient's eyes: the dark beginnings of Sherlock Holmes
2002, St. Martin's Minotaur
in English - 1st U.S. ed.
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The Patient's Eyes
2001, St Martins Pr (T)
in English
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The patient's eyes
2001, Century
in English
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Patient's Eyes: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes
2001, Century Pub.Co.
in English

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"Its dark crimson, an unnerving colour, was matched by a brown carpet, which led to an oak door on the second floor of our home in George Square in Edinburgh."

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
256
Dimensions
8 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
Weight
4 ounces

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Open Library
OL8814940M
Internet Archive
patientseyesdark0000piri
ISBN 10
1933648430
ISBN 13
9781933648439
OCLC/WorldCat
152584364
Library Thing
158773
Goodreads
1336567

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