Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Round The Red Lamp (annotated) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Round the Red Lamp: Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life is a collection of medical and detective stories by Arthur Conan Doyle published on 23 October 1894. The series was suggested to the author by Jerome K. Jerome then editor of The Idler. The stories in this collection "detail the facts and fancies of medical life." Contents: Behind the times -- His first operation -- A straggler of '15 -- The third generation -- A false start -- The curse of Eve -- Sweethearts -- A physiologist's wife -- The case of Lady Sannox -- A question of diplomacy -- A medical document -- Lot no. 249 -- The los amigos fiasco -- The doctors of Hoyland -- The surgeon talks. "A strikingly realistic and decidedly original contribution to modern literature."--Boston Saturday Evening Gazette.