Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Best of Sherlock Holmes
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.
These fifteen short stories, chosen by David Stuart Davies, former Editor of Sherlock magazine, show the master detective Sherlock Holmes at his most ingenious. Faithfully supported by his chronicler, Dr Watson, Holmes pits his wits against 'the Napoleon of Crime', Professor Moriarty, assists European royalty threatened by disgrace, helps to solve the mysterious death of a young woman due to be married, and becomes involved with other intrigues that defeat the detectives of Scotland Yard. The original illustrations from The Strand magazine by Sidney Paget accompany each story.
Stories included in this edition are:
A Scandal in Bohemia
The Red-Headed League
The Boscombe Valley Mystery
The Man with the Twisted Lip
The Blue Carbuncle
The Speckled Band
Silver Blaze
The Musgrave Ritual
The Dancing Man
The Solitary Cyclist
Charles Augustus Milverton
The Six Napoleons
The Abbey Grange
The Second Stain
The Devil's Foot
- Series
- Macmillan Collector's Library (Book 23)
- ISBN
- 1909621994 / 9781909621992
- Pages
- 544
- Weight
- 10.1 oz.
- Dimensions
- 4.0 x 1.0 in.
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