Presents a collection of adventure classics, including "The Red-Headed League," "A Scandal in Bohemia," and "The Final Problem."
The stories included 'The Speckled Band', 'The Final Problem' and 'The Dancing Men'.
The Best Sherlock Holmes Stories: Chosen by the Author
Michael Bracken is the author of several books and more than 1,200 short stories, including crime fiction published in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, and The Best American Mystery Stories 2018.
Famed Victorian-era sleuth outwits a variety of unprincipled villains in "A Scandal in Bohemia," "The Red-headed League," "The Final Problem," "The Adventure of the Empty House," and two other tales.
Indisputably the greatest fictional detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes lives on—in films, on television, and of course through Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s inimitable craft. These twenty-two stories show Holmes at his brilliant best.
Robert S. Paul suggests that the reason detective fiction has won legions of readers may be that "the writer of detective fiction, without conscious intent, appeals directly to those moral and spiritual roots of society unconsciously ...
The stories are related in the first-person narration from Watson's point of view. In general, the stories of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes identify, and attempt to correct, social injustices.
Uniquely combining Holmes' most famous case, The Hound of the Baskervilles, with Arthur Conan Doyle's own 12 favorite Sherlock Holmes stories arranged in order of publication, this edition features an afterword by Conan Doyle's acclaimed ...
Volume I includes the early novel A Study in Scarlet, which introduced the eccentric genius of Sherlock Holmes to the world.
'But don't let yourself be drawn away upon a false scent, Mr. Phelps. ... “Nothing was to be lost by following his advice. With the policeman we both hurried down, ... There was no lounger who could tell us who had passed.