The Mystery of Cloomber Author:Arthur Conan Doyle Although Arthur Conan Doyle is best known for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, he was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays, romances, poetry, and non-fiction. This mystery was first published in 1889. It is narrated by John Fothergill West, a Scot who has moved with his f... more »amily from Edinburgh to Wigtownshire. When West, an Edinburgh solicitor, falls on hard times, a relation offers him and his two children a home on his Branksome Estate located on the remote western coast of Scotland. The family is disturbed by the arrival of the paranoid Major-General Heatherstone who moves into the nearby Cloomber Hall. It is the beginning of a remarkable and disturbing mystery, which leads to an unexplained tragedy out on the desolate moors. Doyle combines the mysterious with the supernatural to give the reader a thrilling story.« less