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Excellent fire side reading on a cold winter evening. There not classics for nothing. (

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charlie68 | Jun 4, 2009 |

Sherlock Holmes is one of the world's most enduring detectives. Doyle's character has inspired a plethora of derivative works running the gamut from print to celluloid, but it is still here, in his original conception, that Holmes remains the freshest, most surprising and utterly enjoyable. (

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ZanKnits | Jan 14, 2009 |

Some of the best mystery stories ever written! (

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amplexus | Jul 24, 2008 |

Sherlock Holmes was conceived by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle over 100 years ago. Since then his popularity has always been on the rise. Many people think that Sherlock Holmes is a real person still living and keep on writing to him regarding their problems on the famous address, 221B Baker Street.
All the four novels and fifty-six short stories featuring this great detective is now available to the discerning reader in three beautifully printed handy volumes.
A Study in Scarlet
The Sign of Four
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes :
A Scandal in Bohemia
The Red-Headed League
A Case of Identity
The Boscombe Valley Mystery
The Five Orange Pips
The Man with the Twisted Lip
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
The Adventure of the Speckled Band
The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb
The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor
The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet
The Adventure of the Copper Beeches

rajendran | Feb 10, 2008 |

What else can be said about the worlds greatest detective? These are wonderful stories that put you right in Victorian England.

jasongibbs | Aug 20, 2007 |

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Series (with order)

Sherlock Holmes (99.1|omnibus volume 1)

Canonical Title

Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I

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People/Characters

Sherlock Holmes

John H. Watson (M.D.)

Important places

London, England, UK

221B Baker Street, London, England, UK

Important events

1800s

Awards and honors

The Telegraph's 110 Best Books: The Perfect Library (2008)

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In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the Army.

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Individual volumes should not be combined with the complete set or different volumes of the same set.

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Sherlock Holmes
The Complete Novels and Stories

Volume I

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 I includes the early novel A Study in Scarlet, which introduced the eccentric genius of Sherlock Holmes to the world. This baffling murder mystery, with the cryptic word Rache written in blood, first brought Holmes together with Dr. John Watson. Next, The Sign of Four presents Holmes’s famous “seven percent solution” and the strange puzzle of Mary Morstan in the quintessential locked-room mystery.

Also included are Holmes’s feats of extraordinary detection in such famous cases as the chilling “ The Adventure of the Speckled Band,” the baffling riddle of “The Musgrave Ritual,” and the ingeniously plotted “The Five Orange Pips,” tales that bring to life a Victorian England of horse-drawn cabs, fogs, and the famous lodgings at 221B Baker Street, where Sherlock Holmes earned his undisputed reputation as the greatest fictional detective of all time.

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