The Best of Sherlock Holmes
Edition: printing (13)
Publisher: Wordsworth Classics
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Ware
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 397
ISBN-13: 9781853267482
Copyright date: 1998
Subjects: 19th century fiction; Classic fiction; Crime & mystery; Fiction; Literature: Classics; Literature & Fiction; Classics
First sentence: To SHERLOCK HOLMES she is always the woman.
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: A scandal in Bohemia; title: The Red-Headed League; title: The five orange pips; title: The man with the twisted lip; title: The blue carbuncle; title: The speckled band; title: The Copper Beeches; title: Silver Blaze; title: The Musgrave ritual; title: The Reigate squires; title: The Greek interpreter; title: The final problem; title: The empty house; title: The dancing men; title: The solitary cyclist; title: The Priory School; title: Charles Augustus Milverton; title: The second stain; title: The devil's foot; title: The illustrious client