The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
Publisher: Collector's Library
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781904633686
Copyright date: 2004
Subjects: Crime & mystery; Mystery/Suspense
Description: In The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes you can read the final twelve stories that Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about his brilliant detective. It is perhaps the most unusual and certainly the darkest collection that he penned. Treachery, mutilation, the terrible consequences Of infidelity are just some of the themes explored in this collection, along with atmospheric touches of the gothic involving g blood• sucking vampire, crypts at midnight and strange bones in a furnace. nese challenging and often bizarre tales reflect the mood of the disillusioned post-war world of the 1920s when they were written. Amid this grey miasma of crime stands the shining figure of Sherlock Holmes who is there to unravel even the most baffling mystery,