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The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #6)
This was the first Holmes collection since 1893, when Holmes had "died" in "The Adventure of the Final Problem". Having published The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1901-1902 (although setting it before Holmes' death) Doyle came under intense pressure to revive his famous character.
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The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #9)
'Mr Sherlock Holmes, the well-known private detective, was the victim of a murderous assault this morning which has left him in a precarious position'. Dr Watson stops dead in his tracks when he reads of the attempt on his friend's life. The forces of nature turn against man, love breeds hatred and cowardice, mothers appear to attack their own children, and Sherlock Holmes, the one man who can redress the balance, seemingly lies at death's door ... When an assassination attempt is made on the great detective's life it seems that no one can escape the death and dread which blights Britain...
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #4)
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes are overshadowed by the event with which they close - the meeting of the great detective and Moriarty, the Napoleon of Crime. Their struggle, seemingly to the death, was to leave many readers desolate at the loss of Holmes, but was also to lead to his immortality as a literary figure.
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The Valley of Fear (Sherlock Holmes, #7)
The Valley of Fear is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel bySir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is loosely based on the Molly Maguires andPinkerton agent James McParland. The story was first published in theStrand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915. The novel startswith Sherlock Holmes receiving a cipher message from Fred Porlock, apseudonymous agent of Professor Moriarty. After Porlock sends themessage, however, he changes his mind for fear of Moriarty's discoveringthat he is a traitor. He decides not to send the key to the cipher, but hesends Holmes a note telling of this decision. From the cipher message andthe second note, Holmes is able to deduce that it is a book-cipher and thatthe book used for the encryption is a common book, large (with at least534 pages), printed in two columns per page, and standardised. Analmanac fits these conditions exactly. Holmes tries the latest…
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)
Complete in nine handsome volumes, each with an introduction by a Doyle scholar, a chronology, a selected bibliography, and explanatory notes, the Oxford Sherlock Holmes series offers a definitive collection of the famous detective's adventures. No home library is complete without it.Comprising the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand, the magazine in which they were first published, this volume won even more popularity for Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Holmes is at the height of his powers in many of his most famous cases, including The Red-Headed League, The Speckled Band, and The Blue Carbuncle.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
Classic / British English Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead just outside his home, Baskerville Hall. Many of the Baskerville family have died mysteriously. People say that they were killed by a gigantic devil-like creature - the Hound of the Baskervilles! Can that be true? And can Sherlock Holmes save the new owner of Baskerville Hall from a terrible death?
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The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes, #2)
The Sign of the Four (1890), also called The Sign of Four, is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote four novels and 56 short stories featuring the fictional detective.The story is set in 1888. The Sign of the Four has a complex plot involving service in India, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts ("the Four" of the title) and two corrupt prison guards. It presents the detective's drug habit and humanizes him in a way that had not been done in the preceding novel, A Study in Scarlet (1887). It also introduces Doctor Watson's future wife, Mary Morstan.
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White Company, Arthur Doyle Conan
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories]
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A Study in Scarlet
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
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The Lost World
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The Sign of Four
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Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [11 stories]
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]
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His Last Bow [8 stories]
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The White Company
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The Poison Belt
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Tales of Terror and Mystery