The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle Hardback Book 9780241347782

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.This collection includes many of the famous cases - and great strokes of brilliance - that made the legendary Sherlock Holmes one of fiction's most popular creations. With his devoted amanuensis, Dr Watson, Holmes emerges from his smoke filled rooms in Baker Street to grapple with the forces of treachery, intrigue and evil in such cases as 'The Speckled Band', in which a terrified woman begs their help in solving the mystery surrounding her sister's death, or 'A Scandal in Bohemia', which portrays a European king blackmailed by his mistress. In 'Silver Blaze' the pair investigate the disappearance of a racehorse and the violent murder of its trainer, while in 'The Final Problem' Holmes at last comes face to face with his nemesis, the diabolical Professor Moriarty - 'the Napoleon of crime'.

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle Binding: Hardback Format: Hardback Genre: Media > Books > Print Books > Biographical fiction Pages: 576 Page Count: 576 Publication Date: 2018 Year of Publication: 2018 Classification: Media > Books > Print Books > Biographical fiction Weight: 806 g Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Country of Publication: United Kingdom ISBN: 9780241347782