Description
Volume 1 :
Sherlock Holmes is one of the world’s most-loved fictional detectives. Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories Volume I is part of a set of two volumes and includes the first novel from the author called A Study In Scarlet. In A Study In Scarlet, you are introduced to the wonderful character of Sherlock Holmes and his first encounter with Dr. John Watson. Read this suspense-ridden murder story featuring the mysterious word rache scribbled in blood, to discover the brilliance of the detective. This volume also includes the Sign of Four, which introduces the detective’s well-known seven percent solution. You will also meet Mary Morstan and the mystery of the locked room. Learn the art of observation from stories like the Red-Headed League, the Adventure of the Speckled Band, the Five Orange Pips and the Hound of the Baskervilles. The mysteries in Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories Volume I are great for adults and children alike. Get a glimpse of life in Victorian England with its horse-drawn carriages, foggy nights and you can even visit Sherlock at 221B Baker Street, his residence. The reissue edition of Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories Volume I was published in 1986 and is available in paperback. Key Features: Sherlock Holmes has been adapted into a film called Sherlock Holmes in 2009. In 2011, a sequel was released called Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. Both movies starred Robert Downey, Jr. and were directed by Guy Ritchie. The movie was set in the London of 1891. In 2010, a modern adaptation of Sherlock Holmes was aired in the UK. It grew to become the most watched drama TV series in the UK since 2001, when the third season aired in 2014.
Volume 2 :
Sherlock Holmes The Complete Novels and Stories Volume II Since his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyle’s classic hero–a truly complete collection of Sherlock Holmes’s adventures in crime! Volume II begins with The Hound of the Baskervilles, a haunting novel of murder on eerie Grimpen Moor, which has rightly earned its reputation as the finest murder mystery ever written. The Valley of Fear matches Holmes against his archenemy, the master of imaginative crime, Professor Moriarty. In addition, the loyal Dr. Watson has faithfully recorded Holmes’s feats of extraordinary detection in such famous cases as the thrilling The Adventure of the Red Circle and the twelve baffling adventures from The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Conan Doyle’s incomparable tales bring to life a Victorian England of horse-drawn cabs, fogs, and the famous lodgings at 221B Baker Street, where for more than forty years Sherlock Holmes earned his undisputed reputation as the greatest fictional detective of all time.
