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The Best of Sherlock Holmes

Aleksandr Malyshev — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 21:16:17 +0000

Faithfully supported by his chronicler, Dr Watson, Sherlock Holmes pits his wits against ‘Napoleon of Crime’ Professor Moriarty, assists European royalty threatened by disgrace, helps to solve the mysterious death of a young woman due to be married, and investigates intrigues that have defeated the detectives of Scotland Yard. Packed with excitement and mystery, this collection showcases the legendary sleuth at his very best. This Macmillan Collector’s Library edition features an afterword by David Stuart Davies, and accompanying each tale are Sidney Paget’s fantastic original illustrations from The Strand magazine. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector’s Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector’s Library are books to love and treasure.

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Sat, 01 Jun 2024 21:27:09 +0000

Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson appear in a second series of twelve intriguing cases. They include The Adventure of Silver Blaze, with the famous ‘curious incident of the dog in the night-time’; The Adventure of the Gloria Scott, where guilt apparently points to a man with a smoking pistol in his hand; and The Adventure of the Crooked Man, the only story in which Holmes ever utters the word ‘elementary’. The Memoirs close with Holmes’s deadly encounter with the arch-criminal Moriarty in The Final Problem.The stories in this volume were first published monthly in The Strand magazine (1892-1893). They are accompanied here by many of the original iconic illustrations of Sidney Paget.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Sat, 01 Jun 2024 21:21:09 +0000

Sherlock Holmes and the faithful Dr Watson are featured here in a series of twelve of their earliest cases. They include A Scandal in Bohemia where, uniquely, Holmes is outwitted — by a beautiful woman; The Red-Headed League, which begins with a bizarre newspaper advertisement for red-haired men; and The Adventure of the Speckled Band, in which the great detective traces a sinister whistling sound to its lethal source.First published month by month in The Strand magazine (1891-1892), the stories are illustrated by Sidney Paget, who created the image of Holmes in his signature deerstalker hat and Inverness cape.

The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Sat, 18 May 2024 13:12:03 +0000

With an Introduction by Dr. Julian WoIfreys’My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don’t know. ‘The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes first introduced Arthur Conan Doyle’s brilliant detective to the readers of The Strand Magazine. The runaway success of this series prompted a second set of stories. The Memoirs. In these twenty three tales, collected here in one volume, you have some of the best detective yarns ever penned. In his consulting room at 22 IB Baker Street, the master sleuth receives a stream of clients all presenting him with baffling and bizarre mysteries to unravel. There is, for example, the man who is frightened for his life because of the arrival of an envelope containing five orange pips; there is the terrified woman who is aware that her life is in danger and cannot explain the strange whistling sounds she hears in the night; and there is the riddle of the missing butler and the theft of an ancient treasure. In the last story, there is the climatic battle between Holmes and his arch enemy, ‘the Napoleon of Crime’ Professor Moriarty. Holmes, with trusty Watson by his side, is equal to these and the other challenges in this splendid collection.This edition contains the original illustrations from Strand Magazine drawn by Sidney Paget.