Title: Best of Sherlock Holmes (Adventure of the Dancing Men / Adventure of the Empty House / Adventure of the Speckled Band / Final Problem / Scandal in Bohemia / Silver Blaze)
First published: January 1, 1980
Description: Contains:
[Adventure of the Dancing Men](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262417W/The_Dancing_Men)
[Adventure of the Empty House](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518119W/The_Adventure_of_the_Empty_House)
[Adventure of the Speckled Band](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262561W/Adventure_of_the_Speckled_Band)
Final Problem
[Scandal in Bohemia](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14930611W/A_Scandal_in_Bohemia)
[Silver Blaze](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518358W/Silver_Blaze)
Subjects: locked-room mysteries, whist, soft-point bullets, deformities, baritsu, anonymity, coal tar, wax sculptures, air guns, attempted murder, Mystery and detective stories, fiction, detective fiction, amorality, Anglo-Saxons, aristocracy, stick figures, Americans, weddings, substitution ciphers, frequency analysis, murder-suicide, crime bosses, hanging, penal labour, prima donnas, cabinet cards, Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, smoke bombs, horse racing, opium, scalpels, race horses, English Detective and mystery stories, Children's stories, English, English children's stories, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
Places: London, Maynooth, Australia, 427 Park Lane, Kensington, Reichenbach Falls, Florence, Tibet, Lhasa, Persia, Mecca, Khartoum, Camden House, Baker Street, Montpellier, France, England, Calcutta, India, Surrey, Ridling Thorpe Manor, Norfolk, United States, Chicago, Bohemia, Scandinavia, Warsaw, 221B Baker Street, Church of St. Monica, Edgware Road, Charing Cross railway station, Wessex, Dartmoor, King's Pyland
People: Sherlock Holmes, John H. Watson, Ronald Adair, Earl of Maynooth, Sebastian Moran, James Moriarty, Mycroft Holmes, Inspector G. Lestrade, Stroke Moran, Helen Stoner, Grimesby Roylott, Hilton Cubitt, Elsie Patrick, Abe Slaney, Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond von Ormstein, Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meiningen, Irene Adler, Godfrey Norton, Fitzroy Simpson, Silver Blaze, Colonel Ross, John Straker, Ned Hunter, William Derbyshire, Silas Brown, Inspector Gregory
Time periods: 1894, 1888