The Best of Sherlock Holmes
397 pages
|Published: 1 Jan 1977
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This edition
ISBN: 9781853267482
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Publication date: 1 January 1998
Description
The Best o/ Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twenty of the very best tales from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fifty-six short stories featuring the arch sleuth.
Within these pages the reader will encounter the greatest collection of villains and the weirdest and most puzzling mysteries ever seen in print. And there at the centre, in a London swathed in eddies of fog and illuminated by gaslight, is to be found the remarkable character of Sherlock Holmes and his staunch companion, Doctor John H. Watson. Few will be able to resist this invitation to step aboard the waiting hansom cab and rattle off along cobbled streets into unimagined dangers and intrigues.
A scandal in Bohemia
The Red-Headed League
The five orange pips
The man with the twisted lip
The blue carbuncle
The speckled band
The Copper Beeches
Silver Blaze
The Musgrave ritual
The Reigate squires
The Greek interpreter
The final problem
The empty house
The dancing men
The solitary cyclist
The Priory School
Charles Augustus Milverton
The second stain
The devil's foot
The illustrious client
Within these pages the reader will encounter the greatest collection of villains and the weirdest and most puzzling mysteries ever seen in print. And there at the centre, in a London swathed in eddies of fog and illuminated by gaslight, is to be found the remarkable character of Sherlock Holmes and his staunch companion, Doctor John H. Watson. Few will be able to resist this invitation to step aboard the waiting hansom cab and rattle off along cobbled streets into unimagined dangers and intrigues.
A scandal in Bohemia
The Red-Headed League
The five orange pips
The man with the twisted lip
The blue carbuncle
The speckled band
The Copper Beeches
Silver Blaze
The Musgrave ritual
The Reigate squires
The Greek interpreter
The final problem
The empty house
The dancing men
The solitary cyclist
The Priory School
Charles Augustus Milverton
The second stain
The devil's foot
The illustrious client
