The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Subtitle: Volume I
By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ; with an introduction and notes by Kyle Freeman ; George Stade, consulting editorial director.
Edition: printing (2)
Series: The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume I
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Classics
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York, NY, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781593082031
Copyright date: 2003
Description: The Complete Sherlock Holmes comprises four novels and fifty-six short stories revolving around the world’s most popular and influential fictional detective—the eccentric, arrogant, and ingenious Sherlock Holmes. He and his trusted friend, Dr. Watson, step from Holmes’s comfortable quarters at 221b Baker Street into the swirling fog of Victorian London to exercise that unique combination of detailed observation, vast knowledge, and brilliant deduction. Inevitably, Holmes rescues the innocent, confounds the guilty, and solves the most perplexing puzzles known to literature. 

Volume I of The Complete Sherlock Holmes starts with Holmes’s first appearance, A Study in Scarlet, a chilling murder novel complete with bloodstained walls and cryptic clues, followed by the baffling The Sign of Four, which introduces Holmes’s cocaine problem and Watson’s future wife. The story collections The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes feature such renowned tales as “A Scandal in Bohemia,” “The Red-Headed League,” and “The Musgrave Ritual.”

Tired of writing stories about Holmes, his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, killed him off at the end of “The Final Problem,” the last tale in The Memoirs. But the public outcry was so great that eight years later he published the masterful The Hound of the Baskervilles, which supposedly takes place before Holmes’s death.

The separate Volume II of The Complete Sherlock Holmes collects the remaining accounts of Holmes’s exploits, including “The Adventure of the Empty House,” which reveals the elaborate circumstances behind Holmes’s literary resurrection.
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Table of contents: title: The world of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes --; title: General introduction --; title: Introduction to volume I --; title: A note on conveyances --; title: A study in scarlet --; title: The sign of four. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: A 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 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. Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes: Silver blaze --; title: The yellow face --; title: The stock-broker's clerk --; title: The "Gloria Scott" --; title: The musgrave ritual --; title: The reigate puzzle --; title: The crooked man --; title: The resident patient --; title: The Greek interpreter --; title: The naval treaty --; title: The final problem. Hound of the Baskervilles --; title: Endnotes --; title: Comments and questions --; title: For further reading.