Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I

ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories contains, in two volumes, all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s world-famous detective.

Volume I includes the novels and stories that introduced the brilliant and unflappable Sherlock Holmes and his partner, Dr. Watson, to the world. A Study in Scarlet is a drama of long-simmering revenge that ranges from the fog-bound streets of London to the pioneer settlements of Utah. The Sign of Four weaves together a stolen treasure from India, poison darts, and double-crossing thieves, while The Hound of the Baskervilles sets the legend of a diabolical hellhound and an old family curse against the backdrop of a moonlit moor. The short stories in this volume include such favorites as “A Scandal in Bohemia,” “The Red-Headed League,” “The Adventure of the Speckled Band,” and “The Final Problem,” tales that have thrilled generations of readers with Holmes’s astounding powers of deduction.A Study in Scarlet
 
The Sign of Four
 
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
   A Scandal in Bohemia
   The Red-headed League
   A Case of Identity
   The Boscombe Valley Mystery
   The Five Orange Pips
   The Man with the Twisted Lip
   The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
   The Adventure of the Speckled Band
   The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb
   The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor
   The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet
   The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
 
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
   Silver Blaze
   The Yellow Face
   The Stock- Broker’s Clerk
   The “Gloria Scott”
   The Musgrave Ritual
   The Reigate Puzzle
   The Crooked Man
   The Resident Patient
   The Greek Interpreter
   The Naval Treaty
   The Final Problem
 
The Hound of the BaskervillesSIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (1859-1930) was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. 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 thirty books and 150 short stories, as well as poems, plays, and essays across a wide range of genres. His most famous creation is the detective Sherlock Holmes, whom he introduced in his first novel, A Study in Scarlet (1887), and last wrote about in short stories published in 1927.