<p>The Great Shadow and other Napoleonic Tales, is an action and adventure novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and published in 1892 in J.W. Arrowsmith&rsquo;s Bristol Library. The novel takes place in the Napoleonic era on the English&ndash;Scottish border city called West Inch. The Great Shadow refers to the Napoleon&rsquo;s influence and his reputation that forms a shadow over West Inch.</p>