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  1. A Study in Scarlet

    A Study in Scarlet

    by Arthur Conan Doyle (Author)

    A Study in Scarlet brings Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson together for the first time, creating one of the most illustrious crime-solving partnerships of all times.

  2. The Sign of Four

    The Sign of Four

    by Arthur Conan Doyle (Author)

    As a dense yellow fog swirls through the streets of London, a deep melancholy has descended on Sherlock Holmes, who sits in a cocaine-induced haze at 221B Baker Street. His mood is only lifted by a visit from a beautiful but distressed young...

  3. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    by Arthur Conan Doyle (Author)

    Amid the foggy streets of sinister London and the even more sinister countryside, Holmes and Watson once more solve the unsolvable. This book is a collection of stories, including - A Scandal in Bohemia, A Case of Identity, The Red-Headed...

  4. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

    The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

    by Arthur Conan Doyle (Author)

    Dr.Watson records eleven stories revealing the astonishing abilities of the famous consulting detective similar only in exhibiting those unusual and outre features so dear to Holmes, his chronicler and their myriad readers. Watson includes the...

  5. The Hound of the Baskervilles

    The Hound of the Baskervilles

    by Arthur Conan Doyle (Author)

    What's the real truth behind the legend of the hound of the Baskervilles? Is it really a devil-beast with crushing teeth and supernatural strength that's haunting the lonely moors? And also understand the human plot behind the hound of the...

  6. The Return of Sherlock Holmes

    The Return of Sherlock Holmes

    by Arthur Conan Doyle (Author)

    '"Holmes!" I cried. "Is it really you? Can it indeed be that you are alive? Is it possible that you succeeded in climbing out of that awful abyss?'.The one and only Sherlock Holmes is sensationally back from the dead, and devoting his life once...

  7. The Valley of Fear

    The Valley of Fear

    by Arthur Conan Doyle (Author)

    "You have heard me speak of Professor Moriarty? The greatest schemer of all time, the organizer of every deviltry, the controlling brain of the underworld, a brain which might have made or marred the destiny of nations -- That's genius, Watson....

  8. His Last Bow

    His Last Bow

    by Arthur Conan Doyle (Author)

    About to spring out upon my appalled senses, lurked all that was vaguely horrible, all that was monstrous and inconceivably wicked in the universe.' A dense yellow fog descends upon London. Tricksters, thieves and murderers stalk their prey...

  9. The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes

    The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes

    by Arthur Conan Doyle (Author)

    The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes is the final collection of Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Originally published in 1927, it contains stories published between 1921 and 1927....

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This is a collection of all the greatest stories from the british detective, Sherlock Holmes.

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  • “I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
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  • His studies are very desultory and eccentric, but he has amassed a lot of out-of-the-way knowledge which would astonish his professors.”
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  • Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.”
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  • while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
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  • “My mind,” he said, “rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
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  • when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
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In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the Army.

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This book is in Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classics. (standard series)
This book is in Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classics. (publisher edition list)
This is book 1 of 100 in Top 100 Mysteries of All Time (Mystery Writers of America, 1995). (authoritative list)

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  1. Arthur Conan Doyle (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Garden City Publishing Company
Country: UK
Publication Date: 1938
ISBN: 1840220767
Page Count: 1323

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Reading Level: Young Adults

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