Six Great Sherlock Holmes Stories
By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Series: Dover Thrift Editions
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 107
ISBN-13: 9780486270555
Subjects: Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Detective and mystery stories, English
Description: Undoubtedly the best-known detective in literature, Sherlock Holmes was the creation of British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), who endowed his super sleuth with an extraordinary facility for solving crimes. Drawing on his remarkable powers of observation and deduction, coupled with an encyclopedic knowledge of crimes and criminals, Holmes seeks out his prey in the London underworld, where no evildoer is safe from his keen wits and tenacious pursuit.

Reprinted from a standard text, this inexpensive volume offers mystery lovers a choice selection of six of the finest Sherlock Holmes stories: "A Scandal in Bohemia," "The Red-headed League," "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb," "The Final Problem," and "The Adventure of the Empty House." In these richly atmospheric stories, Victorian London comes vividly to life as hansom cabs clatter over the cobblestoned streets, gas lamps flare in the thick fog, and an almost palpable sense of excitement seizes the reader as Holmes and Dr. Watson set off on another adventure.
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Notes: US edition
Table of contents: title: From The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892); title: _ A Scandal in Bohemia; title: _ The Red-headed League; title: _ The Adventure of the Speckled Band; title: _ The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb; title: From The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1893); title: _ The Final Problem; title: From The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1905); title: _ The Adventure of the Empty House