Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Doyle, Arthur Conan |
| Publisher: | Bantam Classics |
| Date: | 11/1/1986 |
| Binding: | Mass-market Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
Since his first appearancein Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes hasbeen one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in two paperbackvolumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring ConanDoyle’s classic hero–a truly complete collection of Sherlock Holmes’s adventuresin crime!
Volume I includes the early novel
A Study in Scarlet, which introducedthe eccentric genius of Sherlock Holmes to the world. This baffling murder mystery,with the cryptic word Rache written in blood, first brought Holmes together withDr. 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 casesas the chilling
“ The Adventure of the Speckled Band,” the baffling riddle of
“TheMusgrave Ritual,” and the ingeniously plotted
“The Five Orange Pips,” tales thatbring to life a Victorian England of horse-drawn cabs, fogs, and the famous lodgingsat 221B Baker Street, where Sherlock Holmes earned his undisputed reputation as thegreatest fictional detective of all time.
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