The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
By: Arthur Conan Doyle ; edited with an introduction and notes by Richard Lancelyn Green.
Contributors: Green, Richard Lancelyn.
Edition: printing (3)
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 389
ISBN-13: 9780192835086
Copyright date: 1993
Description: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand magazine in which they were first published, and wond immesne popularity for Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. The detective is at the height of his powers and the volume is full of famous cases, including 'The Red-Headed League,' 'The Blue Carbuncle,' and 'The Speckled Band.' Although Holmes gained a reputation for infallibility, Conan Doyl shoed his own realism and feminism by having the great detective defeated by Irene Adler--the woman--in the very fists story, 'A Scandal in Bohemia.'
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Notes: First published as World classics paperback 1994.
Table of contents: title: A Scandal in Bohemia; title: The Adventure of the Red-Headed League; title: A Case of Identity; title: The Bascombe Valley Mystery; title: The Five Orange Pips; title: The Man with the Twisted Lip; title: The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle; title: The Adventure of the Speckled Band; title: The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb; title: The Adventure of the Nobel Bachelor; title: The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet; title: The Adventure of the Copper Beeches