Six Great Sherlock Holmes Stories
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Undoubtedly the best-known detective in literature, Sherlock Holmes was the creation of British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), who endowed his super sleuth with an extraordinary facility for solving crimes. Drawing on his remarkable powers of observation and deduction, coupled with an encyclopedic knowledge of crimes and criminals, Holmes seeks out his prey in the London underworld, where no evildoer is safe from his keen wits and tenacious pursuit.
Reprinted from a standard text, this inexpensive volume offers mystery lovers a choice selection of six of the finest Sherlock Holmes stories: "A Scandal in Bohemia," "The Red-headed League," "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb," "The Final Problem," and "The Adventure of the Empty House." In these richly atmospheric stories, Victorian London comes vividly to life as hansom cabs clatter over the cobblestoned streets, gas lamps flare in the thick fog, and an almost palpable sense of excitement seizes the reader as Holmes and Dr. Watson set off on another adventure.
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Sherlock Holmes, John H. Watson, Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond von Ormstein, Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meiningen, Irene Adler, Godfrey Norton, Jabez Wilson, Vincent Spaulding, Duncan Ross, Police Inspector Jones, Mr. Merryweather, John Clay, Archie, Victor Hatherley, Lysander Stark, Ronald Adair, Earl of Maynooth, Sebastian Moran, James Moriarty, Mycroft Holmes, Inspector G. Lestrade| Edition | Availability |
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Listen & Read Sherlock Holmes Stories (Listen & Read)
July 10, 1997, Dover Publications
Paperback
in English
- Pap/Cas edition
0486298272 9780486298276
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Six Great Sherlock Holmes Stories
1992, Dover Publications
Paperback
in English
0486270556 9780486270555
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From The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892)
Scandal in Bohemia
Red-headed League
Adventure of the Speckled Band
Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb
From The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1893)
Final Problem
From The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1905)
Adventure of the Empty House
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