The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Series: Barnes & Noble Classics
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Books
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9781566198592
Copyright date: 1974
Description: English literature's first and greatest superhero, Sherlock Holmes still fascinates readers more than 100 years after Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created the beloved detective.

In this, the first collection of Holmes's stories, the detective uses his uncanny skills to rescue a king from blackmail, to capture an ingenious ban robber, and to save an innocent son accused of patricide. In "The Speckled Band," Holmes--accompanied by his friend Dr. Watson--investigates the mysterious case of twin sisters and their fiery-tempered stepfather, who is powerful enough to been a steel poker with his hands.

And then there is "A Scandal in Bohemia," in which Holmes meets the woman, the opera singer Irene Adler, whose exquisite face hides a mind that just may be the equal to the celebrated detective.

Though readers have good reason to believe Holmes will somehow triumph in all his baffling cases, they still delight in watching "the most perfect reasoning and observing machine the world has seen,"--as his Dr. Watson calls him.

Confronted with cases that either seem obvious or hopelessly obscure, Holmes uses his encyclopedic knowledge and preternatural powers of deduction to unearth the truth--and it is our delight to watch, and to try to keep up with, his machinations.

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Table of contents: title: A Scandal in Bohemia; title: The Red-Headed League; title: A Case of Identity; title: The Boscombe 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 Noble Bachelor; title: The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet; title: The Adventure of the Copper Beeches