The Best of Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Best o/ Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twenty of the very best tales from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fifty-six short stories featuring the arch sleuth. Basing his selec- tion around the author's own twelve personal favourites, David Stuart Davies has added a further eight sparkling stories to Conan Doyle's 'Baker Street Dozen', creating a unique volume which distils the pure essence of the world's most famous detective.
Within these pages the reader will encounter the greatest collection of villains and the weirdest and most puzzling mysteries ever seen in print. And there at the centre, in a London swathed in eddies of fog and illuminated by gaslight, is to be found the remarkable character of Sherlock Holmes and his staunch companion, Doctor John H. Watson. Few will be able to resist this invitation to step aboard the waiting hansom cab and rattle off along cobbled streets into unimagined dangers and intrigues.
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The Best of Sherlock Holmes
1998, Wordsworth Classics
Paperback
in English
- printing (13)
1853267481 9781853267482
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"To SHERLOCK HOLMES she is always the woman."
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Contains:
Scandal in Bohemia
Red-headed League
Five Orange Pips
The Man with the Twisted Lip
Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
Adventure of the Speckled Band
Adventure of the Copper Beeches
Silver Blaze
Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual
Adventure of the Reigate Squire
Adventure of the Greek interpreter
Final Problem
Adventure of the Empty House
Adventure of the Dancing Men
Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist
Adventure of the Priory School
Black Peter
Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton
Second Stain
Adventure of the Devil's Foot
Illustrious Client
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