The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is perhaps the greatest collection of detective stories ever written. From his residence at 221B Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes solves a series of baffling and bizarre cases.
All legends begin somewhere, and the two novels here are where one of the world’s bestloved legends began. In A Study in Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson first meet and investigate a seemingly impossible mystery that begins with a corpse in a deserted house.
In Sherlock Holmes: The Dark Mysteries, Sherlock Holmes expert David Stuart Davies has selected the cases of the great detective that best reflect Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s deep interest in the supernatural.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes contains Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s final twelve stories about his great fictional detective. Featuring crypts at midnight, strange bones in a furnace and a blood-sucking vampire, these tales explore the darker side of human nature and involve betrayal.
Three years after his supposed death at the Reichenbach Falls, Sherlock Holmes returns to 221B Baker Street, to the astonishment of Dr Watson and the delight of readers worldwide. From kidnapped heirs to murder by harpoon, Holmes and Watson have their work cut out for them in these brilliant later tales.
Supernatural hounds, a family curse, a mysterious cipher and the return of a deadly enemy . . . Sherlock Holmes will have to utilize every skill he has to solve the two classic mysteries collected here.
Sherlock Holmes scourge of criminals everywhere whether they be lurking in Londons foggy backstreets or plotting behind the walls of an idyllic country mansion and his faithful colleague Dr Watson solve twelve breathtaking and perplexing mysterie
One of the BBC’s ‘100 Novels That Shaped Our World’ The Hound of the Baskervilles gripped readers when it was first serialised and remains one of Sherlock Holmes’s greatest and most popular adventures.
One of the BBC’s ‘100 Novels That Shaped Our World’ The Hound of the Baskervilles gripped readers when it was first serialised and remains one of Sherlock Holmes’s greatest and most popular adventures.
Faithfully supported by his chronicler, Dr Watson, Sherlock Holmes pits his wits against ‘Napoleon of Crime’ Professor Moriarty, assists European royalty threatened by disgrace, helps to solve the mysterious death of a young woman due to be married, and investigates intrigues that have defeated the detectives of Scotland Yard.
Sherlock Holmes is back on the case in this collection of sparkling short stories, in which we learn about Holmes’ early days as a sleuth, encounter a seemingly murderous widow, and meet the great detective’s brother, Mycroft, for the first time. And, in ‘The Final Problem’, Holmes comes face-to-face with his nemesis, Professor Moriarty.