The Adventures and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan; McKowen, Scott

• ISBN13: 9781402714535
• ISBN10: 140271453X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-10-01
• Publisher: Sterling

Summary

The illustrations for this series were created by Scott McKowen, who, with his wife Christina Poddubiuk, operates Punch & Judy Inc., a company specializing in design and illustration for theater and performing arts. Their projects often involve research into the visual aspects of historical settings and characters. Christina is a theater set and costume designer and contributed advice on the period clothing for the illustrations. Scott created these drawings in scratchboard an engraving medium which evokes the look of popular art from the period of these stories. Scratchboard is an illustration board with a specifically prepared surface of hard white chalk. A thin layer of black ink is rolled over the surface, and lines are drawn by hand with a sharp knife by scraping through the ink layer to expose the white surface underneath. The finished drawings are then scanned and the color is added digitally. As the popularity of the recent Lemony Snicket books proves, children never get tired of reading about orphans and their misfortunes. So Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1905 story about a pampered little rich girl who suddenly finds herself poor and fatherless should continue to entice generations of fans.

Author Biography

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle introduced the character of Sherlock Holmes in A Study in Scarlet and continued to write stories about him for 30 years. Although most famous for this character, Doyle also wrote historical fiction Scott McKowen specializes in design and illustration for theater and the performing arts

Table of Contents

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
A Scandal in Bohemia	3	(28)
Chapter 1	5	(11)
Chapter 2	16	(11)
Chapter 3	27	(4)
A Case of Identity	31	(20)
The Red-Headed League	51	(26)
The Boscombe Valley Mystery	77	(26)
The Five Orange Pips	103	(22)
The Man with the Twisted Lip	125	(26)
The Blue Carbuncle	151	(24)
The Speckled Band	175	(28)
The Engineer's Thumb	203	(24)
The Noble Bachelor	227	(24)
The Beryl Coronet	251	(28)
The Copper Beeches	279	(30)
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Silver Blaze	309	(28)
The Yellow Face	337	(22)
The Stockbroker's Clerk	359	(20)
The Gloria Scott	379	(20)
The Musgrave Ritual	399	(22)
The Religate Squires	421	(22)
The Crooked Man	443	(20)
The Resident Patient	463	(22)
The Greek Interpreter	485	(22)
The Naval Treaty	507	(36)
The Final Problem	543	(22)
Questions, Questions, Questions, by Arthur Pober, Ed. D	565	(4)
About the Author, About the Illustrator	569