Title: Favorite Sherlock Holmes Detective Stories (Adventure of the Crooked Man / Adventure of the Dancing Men / Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb / Adventure of the Speckled Band / Final Problem / Red-Headed League / Scandal in Bohemia / Silver Blaze)
First published: 2000
Description: Throughout the annals of literature there is one detective who reigns supreme - Mr. Sherlock Holmes of 212 Baker Street, London. From that celebrated address, Holmes and his friend Dr. Watson set out to solve the most difficult cases and bring to justice the master criminals of Victorian England.
Now readers can enjoy the crime-solving exploits of the storied duo in this selection of favorite adventures. "The Adventures of the Dancing Men" concerns the appearance of mysterious stick-figure drawings which prove disastrous to a country squire and his bride; "The Red-Headed League" pits Holmes against a clever bank robber, while "A Scandal in Bohemia" finds the detective locked in cerebral combat with "that woman" Irene Adler, the only female who ever outwitted him (and the only one to steal his heart). In "The Final Problem," Holmes confronts the evil Professor Moriarty, "the Napoleon of Crime," for the last time atop Rechenbach Falls. Also included here are four other classic tales: "Silver Blaze," "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," "The Engineer's Thumb," and "The Crooked Man."

A great way to introduce younger readers to the world's best-known fictional detective, this affordable collection will entertain mystery lovers of all ages.

From The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892)
[Scandal in Bohemia](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14930611W/A_Scandal_in_Bohemia)
[Red-Headed League](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14930336W/The_Red-Headed_League)
[Adventure of the Speckled Band](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262561W/Adventure_of_the_Speckled_Band)
[Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518318W/Adventure_of_the_Engineer's_Thumb)

From The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1893)
[Silver Blaze](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518358W/Silver_Blaze)
Adventure of the Crooked Man
Final Problem

From The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1905)
[Adventure of the Dancing Men](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262417W/The_Dancing_Men)
Subjects: Private investigators, English Detective and mystery stories, Juvenile fiction, Mystery and detective stories, fiction, juvenile works, Mystery fiction, short stories, prima donnas, cabinet cards, Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, smoke bombs, detective fiction, pawnbrokers, red hair, Encyclopædia Britannica, police inspectors, banks, Juvenile audience, locked-room mysteries, amorality, Anglo-Saxons, aristocracy, hydraulic presses, Fuller's earth, thumbs, counterfeit money, horse racing, opium, scalpels, race horses, Children's stories, English, English children's stories, stick figures, Americans, weddings, substitution ciphers, frequency analysis, murder-suicide, crime bosses, hanging, penal labour, Children's fiction, Holmes, sherlock (fictitious character), fiction
Places: Bohemia, Scandinavia, Warsaw, London, 221B Baker Street, Church of St. Monica, Edgware Road, Charing Cross railway station, Baker Street, England, Calcutta, India, Surrey, Wessex, Dartmoor, King's Pyland, Ridling Thorpe Manor, Norfolk, United States, Chicago
People: Sherlock Holmes, John H. Watson, Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond von Ormstein, Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meiningen, Irene Adler, Godfrey Norton, Jabez Wilson, Vincent Spaulding, Duncan Ross, Police Inspector Jones, Mr. Merryweather, John Clay, Archie, Stroke Moran, Helen Stoner, Grimesby Roylott, Victor Hatherley, Lysander Stark, Fitzroy Simpson, Silver Blaze, Colonel Ross, John Straker, Ned Hunter, William Derbyshire, Silas Brown, Inspector Gregory, Hilton Cubitt, Elsie Patrick, Abe Slaney
Time periods: 1888, 1890, 1889
LC classification: PZ7.D76 Fav 2000