Lc Three Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes

"Sherlock Holmes is a great detective. There are few cases that he cannot solve. In these three stories we meet a young woman who is terrified of a mysterious 'speckled band', a family who think that five orange pips are a sign of death, and a banker who believes that his son is a thief. But are things really as they seem?"--Back cover.

A collection of Sherlock Holmes mystery adventures.

This collection of the fictional exploits of the world's first consulting detective gathers in one volume the thirteen stories of the second series, which took place after Holmes' apparent "death" at Reichenbach Falls. First published in the Strand Magazine from October 1903 to December 1904, these tales were reprinted in book form almost immediately afterward, in the spring of 1905.From sinister graffiti to the mysterious destruction of multiple busts of Napoleon to the kidnapped son of a duke, Holmes's powers of deduction and cool reserve will be tested at every turn in these classic yarns: "The Adventure of the Empty House" "The Adventure of the Norwood Builder" "The Adventure of the Dancing Man" "The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist" "The Adventure of the Priory School" "The Adventure of Black Peter" "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton" "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons" "The Adventure of the Three Students" "The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez" "The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter" "The Adventure of the Abbey Grange" "The Adventure of the Second Stain"This replica edition of the first publication of these tales includes all the original illustrations by Sidney Paget.Scottish surgeon and political activist SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (1859-1930) turned his passions into stories and novels, producing fiction and nonfiction works sometimes controversial (The Great Boer War, 1900), sometimes fanciful (The Coming of the Fairies, 1922), and sometimes legendary (The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1902).

The world-famous crime-solving duo Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are on sterling form in this excellent compilation of six unabridged cases, so fiendishly complex that only the great Sherlock Holmes would dare to investigate. For he alone has the extraordinary faculty of perception and boundless energy which could solve them... Cases include A Scandal in Bohemia, The Red-Headed League and The Adventure of the Copper Beaches.