Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories: Volumes I and II

Since his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam Classics presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyle’s classic hero—a truly complete collection of Sherlock Holmes’s adventures in crime! Volume I includes the early novel A Study in Scarlet, which introduced the eccentric genius of Sherlock Holmes to the world. This baffling murder mystery, with the cryptic word Rache written in blood, first brought Holmes together with Dr. John Watson. Next, The Sign of Four presents Holmes’s famous “seven percent solution” and the strange puzzle of Mary Morstan in the quintessential locked-room mystery. Also included are Holmes’s feats of extraordinary deception in such famous cases as the chilling “The Adventure of the Speckled Band,” the baffling riddle of “The Musgrave Ritual,” and the ingeniously plotted “The Five Orange Pips.” Volume II begins with The Hound of Baskervilles, a haunting novel of murder on eerie Grimpen Moor, which has rightly earned its reputation as the finest murder mystery ever written. The Valley of Fear matches Holmes against his archenemy, the master of imaginative crime, Professor Moriarty. In addition, the loyal Dr. Watson has faithfully recorded Holmes’s feats of extraordinary detection in such famous cases as the thrilling “The Adventure of the Red Circle,” Holmes’s tragic and fortunately premature farewell in “The Final Problem,” and the twelve baffling adventures from The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Conan Doyle’s incomparable tales bring to life a Victorian England of horse-drawn cabs, fogs, and the famous lodgings at 221 B Baker Street, where for more than forty years Sherlock Holmes earned his undisputed reputation as the greatest fictional detective of all time.

Eccentric master detective Sherlock Holmes, with the aid of his partner, Dr. Watson, investigates a series of strange and baffling mysteries in the first of a two-volume collection, which includes the novels A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four, along with such tales as "The Five Orange Pips" and "The Adventure of the Speckled Band." Reissue.

Introduction / Loren Estleman - Hound of the Baskervilles — Valley of fear — His last bow: Adventure of wisteria lodge — Singular experience of Mr. John Scott Eccles — Tiger of San Pedro — Adventure of the cardboard box — Adventure of the red circle — Adventure of the Bruce-Partington plans — Adventure of the dying detective — Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax — Adventure of the devil's foot — His last bow — Case book of Sherlock Holmes: Adventure of the illustrious client — Adventure of the blanched soldier — Adventure of the Mazarin stone — Adventure of the three gables — Adventure of the Sussex vampire — Adventure of the three Garridebs — Problem of Thor bridge — Adventure of the creeping man — Adventure of the lion's mane — Adventure of the veiled lodger — Adventure of Shoscombe old place — Adventure of the retired colourman.