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Adventures in Russia, 1881, Paperback / softback Book

Adventures in Russia, 1881 Paperback / softback

Edited by Dr John Raffensperger, Prof Richard Krevolin

Part of the Diary of Young Arthur Conan Doyle series

Paperback / softback

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Here is the second of the “lost” diaries of young Arthur Conan Doyle, written in 1881 while he was a twenty-two-year-old student at the University of Edinburgh Medical School. In this rollicking story of high adventure, Arthur Conan Doyle serves as a British spy along with the legendary Doctor Joseph Bell—who became the real-life inspiration for the world’s most famous literary detective, Sherlock Holmes. This diary details how Doyle and Dr. Bell journey to Russia on a secret forensic mission to save Europe from war. Peopled with Doyle’s real-life contemporaries—including Dostoyesky and Rasputin, it is an exciting mix of murder, mystery, literary history, and humour sure to please Sherlock Holmes fans everywhere!

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