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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 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 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 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…