Arthur Conan Doyle

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For more than a century, the Sherlock Holmes adventures have thrilled readers. This volume collects seven of his most challenging cases, including 'A Scandal in Bohemia', 'The Red-Headed League', 'The Speckled Band', The Five Orange Pips', 'The Blue Carbuncle' and 'The Beryl Coronet'. It also features the novel, The Hound of the Baskervflles. The stories feature art by Sidney Paget, who illustrated the Sherlock Holmes stories that appeared originally in The Strand.

"His Last Bow" is a series of stories featuring the world's most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes. This particular book is the 1st story of this series. Enjoy Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's imagination as you read "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge". 1st book of 8 book series *Matte cover with wrap-around cover art* *Sherlock Holmes

"His Last Bow" is a series of stories featuring the world's most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes. This particular book is the 5th story of this series. Enjoy Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's imagination as you read "The Adventure of the Dying Detective". 5th book of 8 book series *Matte cover with wrap-around cover art* *Sherlock Holmes

"His Last Bow" is a series of stories featuring the world's most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes. This particular book is the 4th story of this series. Enjoy Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's imagination as you read "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans". 4th book of 8 book series *Matte cover with wrap-around cover art* *Sherlock Holmes

All of the stories within The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes are told in a first-person narrative from the point of view of Dr. Watson, as is the case for all but four of the Sherlock Holmes stories. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry for Doyle suggests that the short stories contained in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes tend to point out social injustices, such as "a king's betrayal of an opera singer, a stepfather's deception of his ward as a fictitious lover, an aristocratic crook's exploitation of a failing pawnbroker, a beggar's extensive estate in Kent." It suggests that, in contrast, Holmes is portrayed as offering a fresh and fair approach in an unjust world of "official incompetence and aristocratic privilege". The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes contains many of Doyle's favourite Sherlock Holmes stories. In 1927, he submitted a list of what he believed were his twelve best Sherlock Holmes stories to The Strand Magazine. Among those he listed were "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" (as his favourite), "The Red-Headed League" (second), "A Scandal in Bohemia" (fifth) and "The Five Orange Pips" (seventh). The book was banned in the Soviet Union in 1929 because of its alleged "occultism", but the book gained popularity in a black market of similarly banned books, and the restriction was lifted in 1940

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. It was first published on 14 October 1892, though the individual stories had been serialised in The Strand Magazine between June 1891 and July 1892. The stories are not in chronological order, and the only characters common to all twelve are Holmes and Dr. Watson. As with all but four of the Sherlock Holmes stories, those contained within The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes are told by a first-person narrative from the point of view of Dr. Watson. In general the stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes identify, and try to correct, social injustices. Holmes is portrayed as offering a new, fairer sense of justice. The stories were well received, and boosted the subscriptions figures of The Strand Magazine, prompting Doyle to be able to demand more money for his next set of stories. The first story, "A Scandal in Bohemia", includes the character of Irene Adler, who, despite being featured only within this one story by Doyle, is a prominent character in modern Sherlock Holmes adaptations, generally as a love interest for Holmes. Doyle included four of the twelve stories from this collection in his twelve favourite Sherlock Holmes stories, picking "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" as his overall favourite.

"His Last Bow" is a series of stories featuring the world's most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes. This particular book is the 2nd story of this series. Enjoy Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's imagination as you read "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box". 2nd book of 8 book series *Matte cover with wrap-around cover art* *Sherlock Holmes

A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Written in 1886, the story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become among the most famous characters in literature. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes, an amateur detective, to his friend and chronicler Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the story's murder investigation as his "study in scarlet": "There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it."

"His Last Bow" is a series of stories featuring the world's most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes. This particular book is the 3rd story of this series. Enjoy Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's imagination as you read "The Adventure of the Red Circle". 3rd book of 8 book series *Matte cover with wrap-around cover art* *Sherlock Holmes

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