num_pages: 326
description: A scandal in Bohemia. --The Red-Headed League. --A case of identity. --The deerstalker cap and cape-backed Overcoat. The pipe. The grace of gaslit Victoriana. The clop-clop of carriage on cob- blestone. The fog rolling in from England's imperial seas. Baker Street.Here is the immortal detective, Sherlock Holmes, in his orig- inal, classic setting: the pages of The Strand Magazine, the stage where he made his debut in 1891 and where Arthur Conan Doyle chose to lay him to rest—albeit temporarily—in 1893.These are the most beloved of the Sherlock Holmes stories, the ones written in the first flush Of Conan Doyle's genius. There are twenty-four stories here. and between ' 'A Scandal in Bohemia" and • The Final Problem' • there lie such masterpieces as • 'The Red-Headed League," Adventure of the Speckled Band," •The Five Orange Pips," • •The Adventure Of the Silver Blaze," and • • The Adventure OF the Musgrave Ritual.Here, too, are all the original illustrations by Sidney Paget, an average of eight per story. Sidney Paget was one of the great illustrators of Sherlock Holmes, and the first one bringing Holmes to life in these Strand stories. He was the most consistent creator of the detective's lasting image, and the artist responsible for the famed Holmes profile.The Boscombe Valley mystery. --The five orange pips. --The man with the twisted lip. --The adventure of the blue carbuncle. --The adventure of the speckled band. --The adventure of the engineer's thumb. --The adventure of the noble bachelor. --The adventure of the Beryl coronet. --The adventure of the Copper Beeches. --The adventure of Silver Blaze. --The adventure of the cardboard box. --The adventure of the yellow face. --The adventure of the stockbroker's clerk. --The adventure of the "Gloria Scott". --The adventure of the Musgrave ritual. --The adventure of the Reigate squire. --The adventure of the crooked man. --The adventure of the resident patient. --The adventure of the Greek interpreter. --The adventure of the naval treaty. --
language: English
title: The Complete Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
titlecomplete: The Complete Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
genres: Fiction, Adventure, Short Stories, Mystery, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Literature, Classics, Historical Fiction, Crime
ratings_count: 6606
series: Sherlock Holmes
publisher: Clarkson N. Potter