Sherlock Holmes The Complete Novels and Stories Volume I (Sherlock Holmes The Complete Novels and Stories Book 1)

Arthur Conan Doyle, who was most famous for writing Sherlock Holmes novels and stories,

He'd been planning a series of stories called The Uncharted Coast about the paranormal, about poltergeists and ghosts and fairies was one of the things that he was writing an article about.

So he was in the middle of researching this article about fairies when he got contacted by the editor of Light Magazine, which is a big spiritualist magazine, saying have you heard about these photographs that Edward Gardner's showing at the Theosophical Institute?

And he's sort of signed and his address at the bottom. So it's all kind of given like sworn testimony almost.

There's an element in which he's drawing on the kind of Sherlock Holmes-ian persona to build his credibility.

There was a famous cartoon in Punch magazine where with his head in the clouds and manacled to him at the ankle was Sherlock Holmes looking very annoyed and there's a poem that went underneath it about how Conan Doyle had turned his back on science and Sherlock Holmes was clearly saddled with this guy and his book