Classic Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle
His friend and cohort Dr. Watson called him the "most perfect reasoning machine the world has seen." Sherlock Holmes, the eccentric, pipe-smoking Londoner with an encyclopedic knowledge of almost every field, could build a solution on the thinnest thread of a clue, and use it to bring any criminal to justice.
In this volume are collected seven of the most thrilling of the Sherlock Holmes stories. With the cunning of a fox and the courtesy of an English gentleman, Holmes uses his miraculous powers of observation to save a king from blackmail, capture England's most wanted and feared bank robber, and reduce the identity of a mysterious man who has left his fiancee at the altar. With Watson as a sounding board for his questions and an accomplice to his machinations, Holmes is virtually unstoppable as a detective, even in the most baffling circumstances. Yet in "A Scandal in Bohemia" he meets the woman, a foe whose beautiful face hides a mind that might be one step ahead of his own. Each chapter provides a new adventure, and each case--seemingly more obscure and hopeless than the last--never proves too difficult for Sherlock Holmes.
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Sherlock Holmes, John H. Watson, Stroke Moran, Helen Stoner, Grimesby Roylott, Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond von Ormstein, Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meiningen, Irene Adler, Godfrey Norton, Violet Hunter, Jephro Rucastle, Mr. Toller, Mrs. Toller, Alice Rucastle, Alexander Holder, Arthur Holder, Mary, George Burnwell, Inspector Lestrade, John Turner, Alice Turner, Charles McCarthy, James McCarthy, Patience Moran, Ballarat Gang, Mary Sutherland, Hosmer Angel, James Windibank, Hafez, Horace, Jabez Wilson, Vincent Spaulding, Duncan Ross, Police Inspector Jones, Mr. Merryweather, John Clay, ArchiePlaces
England, Calcutta, India, Surrey, Bohemia, Scandinavia, Warsaw, London, 221B Baker Street, Church of St. Monica, Edgware Road, Charing Cross railway station, Copper Beeches, Hampshire, Winchester, Streetham, Baker Street, Leadenhall Street, Boscombe Valley, Herefordshire, Australia, Boscombe Pool, Hatherley Farm, Victoria, BallaratShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Classic Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1999, Barnes & Noble Books
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His friend and cohort Dr. Watson called him the "most perfect reasoning machine the world has seen." Sherlock Holmes, the eccentric, pipe-smoking Londoner with an encyclopedic knowledge of almost every field, could build a solution on the thinnest thread of a clue, and use it to bring any criminal to justice.
In this volume are collected seven of the most thrilling of the Sherlock Holmes stories. With the cunning of a fox and the courtesy of an English gentleman, Holmes uses his miraculous powers of observation to save a king from blackmail, capture England's most wanted and feared bank robber, and reduce the identity of a mysterious man who has left his fiancee at the altar. With Watson as a sounding board for his questions and an accomplice to his machinations, Holmes is virtually unstoppable as a detective, even in the most baffling circumstances. Yet in "A Scandal in Bohemia" he meets the woman, a foe whose beautiful face hides a mind that might be one step ahead of his own. Each chapter provides a new adventure, and each case--seemingly more obscure and hopeless than the last--never proves too difficult for Sherlock Holmes.
Red-headed League
Case of Identity
Boscombe Valley Mystery
Adventure of the Beryl Coronet
Adventure of the Copper Beeches
Scandal in Bohemia
Adventure of the Speckled Band
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