The Puffin Sherlock Holmes
By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Edition: printing (3)
Series: Puffin classics
Publisher: Puffin Books
Published: 1988
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780140350951
Description: 'Come, Watson, come! The game is afoot!'

With these immortal words, Sherlock Holmes, the world's most famous private detective, embarks on his thrilling investigations, accompanied by his chronicler and confidant, the worthy Dr Watson.

Through the foggy gaslit street of Victorian London to the deepest countryside, Holmes relentlessly pursues the truth and by his unique powers of reasoning and deduction unravels the most challenging mysteries.

Some of Sherlock Holmes' best-known cases can be found in this selection, including' The Speckled Band' and 'The Adventure of the Dancing Men'. No one could fail to delight in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's immortal amateur sleuth, who has inspired generations of readers since his first appearance in 1878.
Table of contents: title: The Adventure of the Speckled Band; title: The Adventure Of the Blue Carbuncle; title: The Musgrave Ritual; title: The Reigate Puzzle; title: Silver Blaze; title: The Adventure of the Dancing Men; title: The Adventure Of the Six Napoleons; title: The Problem of Thor Bridge