The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1960
Place of publication: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 254
Description: These twelve tales bring the career of the amazing Holmes to a close. 'He began his adventures,' wrote the author in his Preface to the 1927 edition, 'in the very heart of the later Victorian era, carried it through the all-too-short reign of Edward, and has managed to hold his own little niche even in these feverish days.' That too-modest claim holds as true today as ever.
Table of contents: title: The Adventure of the Illustrious Client; title: The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier; title: The Adventure ojtbe Mazarin Stone; title: The Adventure of the Three Gabler; title: The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire; title: The Adventure of the Three Garridebs; title: Tbe Problem of Thor Bridge; title: Tbe Adventure of the Creeping Man; title: Tbe Adventure offbe Lids Mane; title: The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger; title: The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place; title: The Adventgre of 'be Retired Colurman