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  The Complete Sherlock Holmes

  by Arthur Conan Doyle

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  Canon of Sherlock Holmes: Book 3

  The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

  by Arthur Conan Doyle

  The deerstalker, the violin, the dedication to truth and justice - this is Sherlock Holmes. Even after more than a hundred years, Holmes is still THE fictional detective - because he is the hero who'll come to the rescue of victims who have nowhere else to turn. " The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" is a collection of Sherlock Holmes mystery adventures, including "A Scandal in Bohemia," "The Red-headed... (more)
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  Canon of Sherlock Holmes: Book 5

  The Hound of the Baskervilles

  by Arthur Conan Doyle

  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? Enter Sherlock Holmes' world to find the answer, in this, the only full-length novel ever written by the creator of one of the most popular and enduring detective series ever written.
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  Mary Russell: Book 1

  The Beekeeper's Apprentice

  Or, On the Segregation of the Queen

  by Laurie R. King

  In 1915, long since retired from his crime-fighting days, Sherlock Holmes is engaged in a reclusive study of honeybees on the Sussex Downs. Never did the Victorian detective think to meet an intellect matching his own–until his acquaintance with Miss Mary Russell, a young twentieth-century lady whose mental acuity is equaled only by her penchant for deduction, disguises, and danger. Under Holmes’s reluctant... (more)
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  Canon of Sherlock Holmes: Book 1

  A Study in Scarlet

  by Arthur Conan Doyle

  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.
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  The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

  by Arthur Conan Doyle

  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 earliest case of the champion of the law and what tragically seems to be his last. In their Baker Street rooms the two men have heard many a strange secret and brought peace... (more)
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  Enola Holmes Mystery: Book 1

  The Case of the Missing Marquess

  by Nancy Springer

  When Enola Holmes, the much younger sister of detective Sherlock Holmes, discovers her mother has disappeared—on her 14th birthday nonetheless—she knows she alone can find her. Disguising herself as a grieving widow, Enola sets out to the heart of London to uncover her mother’s whereabouts—but not even the last name Holmes can prepare her for what awaits. Suddenly involved in the kidnapping of the young ... (more)
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  The Return of Sherlock Holmes

  by Arthur Conan Doyle

  '"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 more to examining the criminal complexities of the capital. Cases of mysterious codes, persecuted millionaires, stalkers, abductions and a meeting with 'the worst man in... (more)
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  The Sherlockian

  by Graham Moore

  In UK published as "The Holmes Affair".In December 1893, Sherlock Holmes-adoring Londoners eagerly opened their Strand magazines, anticipating the detective's next adventure, only to find the unthinkable: his creator, Arthur Conan Doyle, had killed their hero off. London spiraled into mourning -- crowds sported black armbands in grief -- and railed against Conan Doyle as his assassin. Then in 1901,... (more)
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  Complete Sherlock Holmes: Book 2

  The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Volume 2)

  by Arthur Conan Doyle

  This is Volume II in a 2 volume set. Volume II includes: The Return of Sherlock Holmes (thirteen short stories), The Hound of the Baskervilles (a novel), The Valley of Fear (a novel), His Last Bow (eight short stories), and The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes (twelve short stories).
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  Complete Sherlock Holmes: Book 1

  The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume 1

  by Arthur Conan Doyle

  The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume I , by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics   series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics : All editions are beautifully designed... (more)
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  The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes

  by Arthur Conan Doyle

  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.The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes is the only remaining Sherlock Holmes book written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle still protected by copyright in the United States.
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  Canon of Sherlock Holmes: Book 2

  The Sign of the Four

  by Arthur Conan Doyle

  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 woman - Mary Morstan, whose father vanished ten years before. Four years later she began to receive an exquisite gift every year: a large, lustrous pearl. Now she has had an... (more)
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  Enola Holmes Mystery: Book 3

  The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets

  by Nancy Springer

  Everyone knows Dr. Watson is Sherlock Holmes’ right-hand man—so when he goes missing, it’s a shock. Even Sherlock hasn’t, well, the slightest clue as to where he could be. Enola is intrigued, but weary; she’s still hiding from her older brothers—and getting involved could be disastrous. But when a bizarre bouquet shows up at the Watson residence, full of convolvulus, hawthorn, and white poppies, Enola must act.... (more)
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  Canon of Sherlock Holmes: Book 8

  His Last Bow

  by Arthur Conan Doyle

  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 undetected. Lawlessness abounds but it is no match for the penetrating mind of Sherlock Holmes as he investigates the strangest of cases. A woman receives a gruesome package —... (more)
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  The Devil in the White City

  Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

  by Erik Larson

  Bringing Chicago circa 1893 to vivid life, Erik Larson's spellbinding bestseller intertwines the true tale of two men--the brilliant architect behind the legendary 1893 World's Fair, striving to secure America’s place in the world; and the cunning serial killer who used the fair to lure his victims to their death. Combining meticulous research with nail-biting storytelling, Erik Larson has crafted a narrative... (more)
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  The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes

  by Arthur Conan Doyle

  Here, reproduced in complete facsimile, are the original Sherlock Homes detective stories as they first appeared in the famed 19th-century British magazine "The Strand." Illustrating the stories are drawings of Sidney Paget - illustrations as immortal as the stories themselves. Includes over 37 of Doyle's best suspense-filled short-stories plus the complete version of the novel The Hound of the Baskervilles.
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  Mary Russell: Book 4

  The Moor

  A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes

  by Laurie R. King

  Barely has Mary Russell resumed her 1923 studies at Oxford when she is summoned by her partner and husband Sherlock Holmes to the eerie scene of his most celebrated case. But this time, on Dartmoor, there is more to the matter than a phantom hound. Sightings of a spectral coach carrying a long-dead noblewoman over the moonlit moor have heralded a mysterious death, the corpse surrounded by oversize paw prints. ... (more)
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  The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

  by Martin H. Greenberg, Carol-Lynn Rossel Waugh

  Bestselling author Anne Perry and Conan Doyle's most recent biographer, Daniel Stashower, among others, contribute new stories that expand this tribute to Conan Doyle's immortal creation. Mystery editors Martin Greenberg and Carol-Lynn Rossel Waugh specially commissioned original works by Stephen King, Michael Gilbert, John Lutz, Edward D. Hoch, Dorothy B. Hughes, Peter Lovesey, Lillian de la Torre, John Gardner,... (more)
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  The Valley of Fear

  by Arthur Conan Doyle

  "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. But if I am spared by lesser men, our day will surely come." Sherlock Holmes is the one true pastmaster of the modern mystery; if you haven't read Doyle's tales of Sherlock... (more)