The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Books
Published: 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780760750759
Description: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is perhaps the greatest collection of detective short stories ever written. It was these tales penned by Arthur Conan Doyle that first introducted the magical and eccentric character of Sherlock Holmes to the readers of The Strand Magazine. In his consulting room at 221B Baker Street, the master sleuth receives a stream of clients all presenting him with baffling and bizarre puzzles for him to solve. There is, for example, the man frightened for his life because of the arrival of an envelope containing orange pips; the terrified woman aware that her life is in danger and who cannot explain the strange whistling sounds she hears in the night the woman whose fiance disappeared on his way to their wedding... and more. Of course, Holmes, with trusty Watson by his side, is equal to these and the other challenges in this splendid collection.
Notes: Collector's Library
Table of contents: title: 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 blue carbuncle --; title: The speckled band --; title: The engineer's thumb --; title: The noble bachelor --; title: The Beryl coronet --; title: The copper beeches.