The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 4 Novels and 56 Short Stories - Softcover

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553328255 ISBN 13: 9780553328257

Publisher: Bantam Books Inc, 1986

Synopsis

The complete collection of Sherlock Holmes's adventures in crime, including all four novels and fifty-six short stories featuring Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic hero

Volume I includes the early novel A Study in Scarlet, which introduced the eccentric genius of Sherlock Holmes to the world. This baffling murder mystery, with the cryptic word Rache written in blood, first brought Holmes together with Dr. John Watson. Next, The Sign of Four presents Holmes's famous "seven percent solution" and the strange puzzle of Mary Morstan in the quintessential locked-room mystery. Also included are Holmes's feats of extraordinary detection in such famous cases as "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," "The Musgrave Ritual," and "The Five Orange Pips."

Volume II begins with The Hound of the Baskervilles, a haunting novel of murder on eerie Grimpen Moor, which has rightly earned its reputation as the finest murder mystery ever written. The Valley of Fear matches Holmes against his archenemy, the master of imaginative crime, Professor Moriarty. In addition, the loyal Dr. Watson has faithfully recorded Holmes's exploits from "The Adventure of the Red Circle" to the twelve baffling enigmas from The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes.

Conan Doyle's incomparable tales bring to life a Victorian England of horse-drawn cabs, fogs, and the famous lodgings at 221B Baker Street, where for more than forty years Sherlock Holmes earned his undisputed reputation as the greatest fictional detective of all time.

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'Too much Holmes is no more likely than too much foie gras and no less desirable... Will delight his fans' --Observer

Book Description:

Everyone knows who he is. So why haven't YOU read Sherlock Holmes yet?

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Books Inc
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0553328255
• ISBN 13: 9780553328257
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 1