The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes - The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Overview

A volume of seemingly unsolvable mysteries, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes features the final twelve short stories in Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective series.

First published in 1927, this volume is the last instalment in Arthur Conan Doyle's series of Sherlock Holmes' adventures. Usually narrated by Doctor Watson, the detective's companion and accomplice, these final short stories divert the author's typical style, and two adventures are narrated by Holmes himself.

The short stories featured in this volume include:

- The Adventure of the Illustrious Client

- The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier

- The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone

- The Adventure of the Three Gables

- The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire

- The Adventure of the Three Garridebs

- The Problem of Thor Bridge

This edition features a specially commissioned introduction alongside an article by Arthur Conan Doyle and an essay on the history of detective fiction by S.S. Van Dine.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781447467366
Publisher:	Detective Fiction Classics
Publication date:	12/03/2012
Series:	Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library , #9
Pages:	324
Sales rank:	325,802
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.73(d)

About the Author

A prolific author of books, short stories, poetry, and more, the Scottish writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) is best known for the creation of one of literature’s most vivid and enduring characters: Sherlock Holmes. Through detailed observation, vast knowledge, and brilliant deduction, Holmes and his trusted friend, Dr. Watson, step into the swirling fog of Victorian London to rescue the innocent, confound the guilty, and solve the most perplexing puzzles known to literature.

Date of Birth:

May 22, 1859

Date of Death:

July 7, 1930

Place of Birth:

Edinburgh, Scotland

Place of Death:

Crowborough, Sussex, England

Education:

Edinburgh University, B.M., 1881; M.D., 1885