The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Edition: Media tie-in edition (6)
Publisher: BBC Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781849903677
Copyright date: 2011
Description: The hit BBC series Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, offers a fresh, contemporary take on the classic Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stories, and has helped introduce a whole new generation of fans to the legendary detective. In this new edition of Conan Doyle's first collection of short stories, Sherlock co-creator Mark Gatiss explains how these gripping tales inspired and influenced the new series.

Sherlock: The Adventures contains twelve short stories first published in The Strand magazine between 1891 and 1892 and then published as a collection in October 1892. It includes some of Conan Doyle's best tales of murder and mystery, such as 'The Adventures of the Speckled Band', in which the strange last words of a dying woman 'It was the band, the speckled band!' and an inexplicable whistling in the night are the only clues Sherlock Holmes has to prevent another murder; and 'The Five Orange Pips', in which an untimely death and the discovery of the letter containing five orange pips lead to a cross-Atlantic conspiracy.
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Table of contents: title: A scandal in Bohemia --; title: The Red-headed League --; title: A case of identity --; title: The Boscome 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.