Sherlock Holmes Volume One
These 12 short stories first appeared in The Strand magazine during 1891-2, and were published in book form in the latter year. Sherlock Holmes had made his debut five years earlier in A Study in Scarlet, but it was this collection that established him as a detective nonpareil, and Arthur Conan Doyle as one of the most popular writers of the day.
In 'The Red-Headed League', pawnbroker Jabez Wilson responds to an advertisement calling for a new recruit to that mysterious association. His hair colour secures him an undemanding, well-paid job - until the day he arrives for work to discover that the League has been summarily dissolved.
Hydraulics expert Victor Hatherley also accepts a lucrative offer in 'The Engineer's Thumb', and receives a severed digit into the bargain.
In 'The Blue Carbuncle' a fabulous gemstone turns up in a gooses throat.
A terrified woman fears she will meet the same fate as her twin sister in 'The Speckled Band'. Sherlock Holmes takes these and other curiosities effortlessly in his stride. No matter how bizarre the facts, Holmes applies his forensic skills and towering intellect to the problem, and the truth will out.
Sherlock Holmes Volume Two
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, Holmes's tragic and fortunately premature farewell in The Final Problem, 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.
Sales Details
Price and product quantity:
Volume One: RM8.90, 100 units
Volume Two: RM29.90, 100 units
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