num_pages: 254
description: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in a preface to this final collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, remarked that his detective "must go the way of all flesh, material or imaginary." But Holmes's vitality is felt at once by anyone sampling the stories in The Case Book, which includes The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire, with its tantalizing reference to "the giant rat of Sumatra;" and The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier, a case which Holmes must tell is about himself because, as he says, "The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action which I can recall in our association." Just a pair of highlights to look forward to among these final 12 cases of Sherlock Holmes.
language: English
title: The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes
titlecomplete: The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes
characters: Sherlock Holmes
genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Mystery, Thriller, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Classics, Historical Fiction, Crime, Audiobook
ratings_count: 26661
places: United Kingdom
series: Sherlock Holmes
publisher: Berkley