The Complete Sherlock Holmes #2 Boxed Set

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Overview

The complete collection of Sherlock Holmes’s adventures in crime, including all four novels and fifty-six short stories featuring Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic hero

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 Adventure of the Speckled Band,” “The Musgrave Ritual,” and “The Five Orange Pips.”

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 exploits from “The Adventure of the Red Circle” to the twelve baffling enigmas 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780553328257
Publisher:	Random House Publishing Group
Publication date:	10/01/1986
Series:	Sherlock Holmes Mystery Series
Edition description:	Deluxe
Pages:	2
Sales rank:	387,339
Product dimensions:	4.37(w) x 6.98(h) x 3.18(d)

About the Author

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born on May 22, 1859, in Edinburgh. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and began to write stories while he was a student. Over his life he produced more than 30 books, 150 short stories, poems, plays, and essays across a wide range of genres. His most famous creation is the detective Sherlock Holmes, who he introduced in his first novel, A Study in Scarlet (1887). This was followed in 1889 by an historical novel, Micah Clarke. In 1893 Conan Doyle published The Final Problem in which he killed off his famous detective so that he could turn his attention more toward historical fiction. However, Holmes was so popular that Conan Doyle eventually relented and published The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1901. The events of the The Hound of the Baskervilles are set before those of The Final Problem, but in 1903 new Sherlock Holmes stories began to appear that revealed that the detective had not died after all. He was finally retired in 1927. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died on July 7, 1930.

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

Table of Contents

	A Study in Scarlet
Part 1	Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D., Late of the Army Medical Department.
1	Mr. Sherlock Holmes	15
2	The Science of Deduction	19
3	The Lauriston Garden Mystery	25
4	What John Rance Had to Tell	32
5	Our Advertisement Brings a Visitor	36
6	Tobias Gregson Shows What He Can Do	41
7	Light in the Darkness	46
Part 2	The Country of the Saints
1	On the Great Alkali Plain	52
2	The Flower of Utah	58
3	John Ferrier Talks with the Prophet	62
4	A Flight for Life	65
5	The Avenging Angels	71
6	A Continuation of the Reminiscences of John Watson, M.D.	76
7	The Conclusion	83
	The Sign of Four
1	The Science of Deduction	89
2	The Statement of the Case	94
3	In Quest of a Solution	97
4	The Story of the Bald-headed Man	100
5	The Tragedy of Pondicherry Lodge	106
6	Sherlock Holmes Gives a Demonstration	110
7	The Episode of the Barrel	115
8	The Baker Street Irregulars	122
9	A Break in the Chain	128
10	The End of the Islander	134
11	The Great Agra Treasure	139
12	The Strange Story of Jonathan Small	143
	Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
	A Scandal in Bohemia	161
	The Red-headed League	176
	A Case of Identity	190
	The Boscombe Valley Mystery	202
	The Five Orange Pips	217
	The Man with the Twisted Lip	229
	The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle	244
	The Adventure of the Speckled Band	257
	The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb	273
	The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor	287
	The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet	301
	The Adventure of the Copper Beeches	316
	Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
	Silver Blaze	335
	The Yellow Face	350
	The Stock-broker's Clerk	362
	The "Gloria Scott"	373
	The Musgrave Ritual	386
	The Reigate Puzzle	398
	The Crooked Man	411
	The Resident Patient	422
	The Greek Interpreter	435
	The Naval Treaty	447
	The Final Problem	469
	The Return of Sherlock Holmes
	The Adventure of the Empty House	483
	The Adventure of the Norwood Builder	496
	The Adventure of the Dancing Men	511
	The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist	526
	The Adventure of the Priory School	538
	The Adventure of Black Peter	558
	The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton	572
	The Adventure of the Six Napoleons	582
	The Adventure of the Three Students	596
	The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez	607
	The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter	622
	The Adventure of the Abbey Grange	635
	The Adventure of the Second Stain	650
	The Hound of the Baskervilles
1	Mr. Sherlock Holmes	669
2	The Curse of the Baskervilles	673
3	The Problem	679
4	Sir Henry Baskerville	685
5	Three Broken Threads	692
6	Baskerville Hall	698
7	The Stapletons of the Merripit House	704
8	First Report of Dr. Watson	712
9	Second Report of Dr. Watson	716
10	Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson	726
11	The Man on the Tor	732
12	Death on the Moor	740
13	Fixing the Nets	747
14	The Hound of the Baskervilles	754
15	A Retrospection	761
	The Valley of Fear
Part 1	The Tragedy of Birlstone
1	The Warning	769
2	Sherlock Holmes Discourses	774
3	The Tragedy of Birlstone	779
4	Darkness	784
5	The People of the Drama	791
6	A Dawning Light	798
7	The Solution	806
Part 2	The Scowrers
1	The Man	815
2	The Bodymaster	820
3	Lodge 341, Vermissa	830
4	The Valley of Fear	839
5	The Darkest Hour	846
6	Danger	853
7	The Trapping of Birdy Edwards Epilogue	865
	His Last Bow
	The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge
1	The Singular Experience of Mr. John Scott Eccles	869
2	The Tiger of San Pedro	877
	The Adventure of the Cardboard Box	888
	The Adventure of the Red Circle	901
	The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans	913
	The Adventure of the Dying Detective	932
	The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax	942
	The Adventure of the Devil's Foot	954
	His Last Bow	970
	The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes
	The Adventure of the Illustrious Client	984
	The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier	1000
	The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone	1012
	The Adventure of the Three Gables	1023
	The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire	1033
	The Adventure of the Three Garridebs	1044
	The Problem of Thor Bridge	1054
	The Adventure of the Creeping Man	1070
	The Adventure of the Lion's Mane	1083
	The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger	1095
	The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place	1102
	The Adventure of the Retired Colourman	1113