Sidney Paget
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Sherlock Holmes and the faithful Dr. Watson are featured here in a series of twelve of their earliest cases. They include A Scandal in Bohemia where, uniquely, Holmes is outwitted - by a beautiful woman; The Red-Headed League, which begins with a bizarre newspaper advertisement for red-haired men; and The Adventure of the Speckled Band, in which the great detective traces a sinister whistling sound to its lethal source. First published month by month...
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Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson investigate the curious disappearance of a young woman's fiance in this mysterious case of stolen identity.
When Mary Sutherland comes to Sherlock Holmes to request he find her missing fiance, the remarkable detective wastes no time solving the puzzling case. After being abandoned at the altar on what should've been her wedding day, Mary is convinced that the disappearance of her husband-to-be is the result of...
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My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere.
-Sherlock Holmes, The Sign of the Four.
Pit your wits against the greatest detective of them all with this collection of fiendish and hugely entertaining puzzles and enigmas. Some involve riddles, some plays on words, and some rely on mathematical principles. Use your powers of logical...
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Sherlock Holmes, the world's most esteemed detective, comes head to head with his greatest challenges in this thrilling collection of Arthur Conan Doyle's crime stories.
Published between 1890 and 1917, this Sherlock Holmes collection features 11 of Arthur Conan Doyle's finest detective fiction stories. Each gripping case showcases the brilliant mind of Holmes and the lengths he will go to solve a case. With vivid descriptions, endless twists and...
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This enthralling collection of short stories features Arthur Conan Doyle's 12 favourite Sherlock Holmes tales.
In 1927, The Strand Magazine, which published many of the Sherlock Holmes stories, ran a competition for fans to guess the author's own favourite tales. In the March of that year, the magazine published an article by Arthur Conan Doyle listing his top 12 Sherlock stories and why. This collection features all those short stories alongside...
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Longmeadow Press
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©1987
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English
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Here, reproduced in complete facsimile, are the original Sherlock Holmes detective stories as they first appeared in the famed British magazine "The Strand." Illustrating the stories are the drawings by Sidney Paget -- illustrations as immortal as the stories themselves. So get ready for some serious investigating and suspense filled adventure through 37 short stories plus the complete novel of The Hound of the Baskervilles
