The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes; The Life and Times of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

New York: Free Press, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($30.00), bumped at the top edge. Quarter blue buckram with cream-colored paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A biography of Conan Doyle that seeks to make sense of a long-standing mystery: "how the scientifically minded creator of the world's most rational detective himself succumed to an avid belief in spiritualism, including communication with the dead.