Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Stories of ingenious crime and inspired detection.
No case is too challenging, no mystery too mysterious, no crime too serious for the Victorian super sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, with his redoubtable assistant Dr Watson. The world's most famous private detective uses his unique powers of deduction and reasoning to solve the unsolvable, from the bizarre case of The Red-Headed League, to the strange tale of The Solitary Cyclist, and the extraordinary saga of The Engineer's Thumb.
This selection contains eight of the celebrated criminologist's most intriguing adventures, where he grapples with the very extremes of treachery and murderous evil.
In Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has created an immortal hero who has inspired readers since his first appearance in 1878.
--back cover
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Sherlock Holmes, John H. Watson, Violet Smith, Mr. Carruthers, Mr. Woodley, Ralph Smith, Cyril Morton, Charles Augustus Milverton, Eva Blackwell, Inspector G. Lestrade, Stanley Hopkins, Willoughby Smith, Professor Coram, Anna Coram, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thorneycroft Huxtable, Lord Saltire, Duke of Holdernesse, Heidegger, James Wilder, Reuben Hayes, Alexander Holder, Arthur Holder, Mary, George Burnwell, Victor Hatherley, Lysander Stark, Jabez Wilson, Vincent Spaulding, Duncan Ross, Police Inspector Jones, Mr. Merryweather, John Clay, Archie| Edition | Availability |
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The Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
2010, Penguin Publishing
Electronic resource
in English
0141925299 9780141925295
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Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
November 1995, Tandem Library
School & Library Binding
in English
061387322X 9780613873222
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The Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1994, Puffin Books
Paperback
in English
- Reissue (24)
014036689X 9780140366891
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Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1990, Puffin Books
Paperback
in English
0140351167 9780140351163
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"On glancing over my notes of the seventy-odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic."
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