The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes
Edition: paperback edition (2)
Publisher: Headline Review
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780755334384
Subjects: Classic fiction; Crime & mystery
Description: Dr Watson stops dead in his tracks when he reads of the attempt on his friend's life. It seems no one can escape the death and dread which infect Victorian England. The forces of nature turn against man, love breeds hatred and cowardice, mothers appear to attack their own children and Sherlock Holmes, the one man who can redress the balance, seemingly lies at death's door...

The reader is held rapt once again with cases both enthralling and horrifying, before Holmes, the legendary detective, must finally go into retirement...