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    Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories: Volumes I and II

    By Arthur Conan Doyle

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    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 one eBook, Bantam Classics 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 deception 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.”

    Volume II begins with The Hound of 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 221 B Baker Street, where for more than forty years Sherlock Holmes earned his undisputed reputation as the greatest fictional detective of all time.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
    Release dateAug 26, 2003
    ISBN9780553897449
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    Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories: Volumes I and II
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    Arthur Conan Doyle

    Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician. He is the creator of the Sherlock Holmes character, writing his debut appearance in A Study in Scarlet. Doyle wrote notable books in the fantasy and science fiction genres, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels.

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    • 4/5
      Curious and rather wonderful aspect with Sherlock Holmes' stories is the total lack of artificial suspence - there is no need to frantically flick through the pages in order to get from one action to another, everything is rolled out nice and smoothly...

      PS! Should anyone read the adventures for the very first time and has an edition with introduction by Loren Estleman, I strongly recommend to enjoy this part AFTER finishing the book or you miss a lot of insight :)
    • 4/5
      I remember Sherlock Holmes as being one of the few things I enjoyed reading in high school. So while finishing library school, I picked up this two volume set and they are as good as I remember. Smart and full of fun and obscure details about all subjects, these stories are still delightful to explore.
    • 5/5
      I love anything that has to do with solving crimes and mysteries. It always kept my mind working. This is really a piece of work awesomely done. Thanks to Sir Arthur for introducing Sherlock and John to us!
    • 4/5
      There isn't much left to say about this book that hasn't already been said, except that I wish I hadn't read it from cover to cover. I feel like these stories were meant to be picked up here and there, a fun night next to the fire, perhaps even read aloud with others. When you string them all together they do lose some of their charm and begin to feel repetitive. I love the Holmes and Watson and having read it realize the huge impact this book has had on today's super sleuths in novels and on television and movies.
    • 3/5
      Way more racist than I remember...
    • 3/5
      My attention wandered. However, I didn't feel impatient with it as I do many other slow-paced books, did not feel the need to turn it off (I listened to it). I found it kind of pleasant letting it play in the background of my thoughts, occasionally entertaining me with some little bit. I'm glad I finished it, just to have an idea what the old Sherlock Holmes stories were like. But I don't have a need to continue on.
    • 4/5
      I remember Sherlock Holmes as being one of the few things I enjoyed reading in high school. So while finishing library school, I picked up this two volume set and they are as good as I remember. Smart and full of fun and obscure details about all subjects, these stories are still delightful to explore.
    • 4/5
      So, after reading the complete works of Sherlock Holmes, I've come to a conclusion - that Sherlock Holmes is not my cup of tea. Its a cross between the stories being too clean, and that Sherlock Holmes is a bit of an ass. I actually like Watson considerable more. Watson brings in a humanizing factor that gives Sherlock a way to explain his stories.I know that this is a book of its time, where classism exists, English Exceptionalism, etc etc. However, Doyle at times points out the hypocrisy - in "The Adventure of the Yellow Face", when Sherlock Holmes is hired to figure out what a secretive wife is doing, he finds she is hiding her much loved child from a previous marriage to a black man. Most of these stories from both volumes have faded for me, but a few do stick out. "The Hound of the Baskervilles" is one my favorites.