Classic Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Edition: printing (3)
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Books
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9780760711040
Description: His friend and cohort Dr. Watson called him the "most perfect reasoning machine the world has seen." Sherlock Holmes, the eccentric, pipe-smoking Londoner with an encyclopedic knowledge of almost every field, could build a solution on the thinnest thread of a clue, and use it to bring any criminal to justice.

In this volume are collected seven of the most thrilling of the Sherlock Holmes stories. With the cunning of a fox and the courtesy of an English gentleman, Holmes uses his miraculous powers of observation to save a king from blackmail, capture England's most wanted and feared bank robber, and reduce the identity of a mysterious man who has left his fiancee at the altar. With Watson as a sounding board for his questions and an accomplice to his machinations, Holmes is virtually unstoppable as a detective, even in the most baffling circumstances. Yet in "A Scandal in Bohemia" he meets the woman, a foe whose beautiful face hides a mind that might be one step ahead of his own. Each chapter provides a new adventure, and each case--seemingly more obscure and hopeless than the last--never proves too difficult for Sherlock Holmes.
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Table of contents: title: The Red-headed League --; title: A case of identity --; title: The Boscombe Valley mystery --; title: The beryl coronet --; title: The Copper Beeches --; title: A scandal in Bohemia --; title: The speckled band.