This volume one consists of 6 short stories taken from the book. In The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone, Holmes uses a decoy to retrieve a lost precious gem. The Problem of Thor Bridge is about the truth behind a woman’s death on Thor Bridge. The Adventure of the Creeping Man tells the story of Holmes unraveling the cause of a professor’s strange behaviors. In The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire, Holmes receives two unexpected letters which make reference to vampires. The Adventure of the Three Garridebs is about a man looking for other men with his unusual surname. The Adventure of the Illustrious Client tells how Holmes stops a marriage between a girl and a roguish, sadistic man.

The Sixsmiths are a family of suburban Satanists who've fallen prey to the global recession. Now their life is in turmoil: Ralf needs to find a new job; the twins, Cain and Lilith, need to survive the public school system; and Annie needs to keep them all sane and under budget. Meanwhile, their estranged elder daughter Jezabelle is having her own crisis of faith. Will the Devil rise to smite their enemies, or will he damn them with hellfire and wrath?

Contains a collection of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, such as A Scandal in Bohemia and The Red-Headed League.

This volume consists of 4 different short stories from the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Bringing in the most famous female character Irene Adler in the series, the first story A Scandal in Bohemia narrated the affairs between her and the King of Bohemia, all because of an indiscreet photograph that Holmes has to recover. The Red-Headed League is about a pawnbroker gained a highly-paid clerical work just because of his red hair, Holmes finds this job offer unfolded a conspiracy. A Case of Identity, the third story, a woman with stable income has a fiancé who has recently disappeared, while at the end Holmes figures out what was behind the mystery. The Boscombe Valley Mystery, the last story in this volume, is about a murder case whose the deceased’s son is implicated. Holmes deduces that there was a third person in the crime scene which lead to the murderer’s confession.

This volume consists of 6 short stories from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, including The Adventure of Silver Blaze, The Adventure of the Cardboard Box, The Adventure of the Yellow Face, The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk, The Adventure of the Gloria Scott, and The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual. Among them contains a rare and remarkable piece of Holmes’ incorrect deduction.

Classic short stories of Sherlock Holmes now available in a separate, attractively priced individual volume. The publication of Leslie S. Klinger's brilliant new annotations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic Holmes short stories in 2004 created a Holmes sensation. Available again in an attractively-priced edition identical to the first, except this edition has no outer slipcase (Volume Two is available separately). Inside, readers will find all the short stories from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, with a cornucopia of insights: beginners will benefit from Klinger's insightful biographies of Holmes, Watson, and Conan Doyle; history lovers will revel in the wealth of Victorian literary and cultural details; Sherlockian fanatics will puzzle over tantalizing new theories; art lovers will thrill to the 450-plus illustrations, which make this the most lavishly illustrated edition of the Holmes tales ever produced. The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes illuminates the timeless genius of Arthur Conan Doyle for an entirely new generation of readers.

Sherlock Holmes: The Hero With a Thousand Faces ambitiously takes on the task of explaining the continued popularity of Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective over the course of three centuries. In plays, films, TV shows, and other media, one generation after another has reimagined Holmes as a romantic hero, action hero, gentleman hero, recovering drug addict, weeping social crusader, high-functioning sociopath, and so on. In essence, Sherlock Holmes has become the blank slate upon which we write the heroic formula that best suits our time and place. Volume One looks at the social and cultural environment in which Sherlock Holmes came to fame. Victorian novelists like Anthony Trollope and William Thackeray had pointedly written "novels without a hero," because in their minds any well-ordered and well-mannered society would have no need for heroes or heroic behavior. Unfortunately, this was at odds with a reality in which criminals like Jack the Ripper stalked the streets and people didn't trust the police, who were generally regarded as corrupt and incompetent. Into this gap stepped the world's first consulting detective, an amateur reasoner of some repute by the name of Sherlock Holmes, who shot to fame in the pages of The Strand Magazine in 1891. When Conan Doyle proceeded to kill Holmes off in 1893, it was American playwright, director, and actor William Gillette who brought the character back to life in his 1899 play Sherlock Holmes, creating a sensation on both sides of the Atlantic with his romantic version of Holmes, and cementing his place as the definitive Sherlock Holmes until the late 1930s. By that point, Sherlock Holmes had developed a cult following who facetiously maintained that Holmes was a real person, formed clubs like The Baker Street Irregulars, and introduced the idea of cosplay to the embryonic world of fandom. These well-educated fanboys subsequently became the self-assigned protectors of Sherlock Holmes, anxious that their version of the character not be besmirched or defamed in any way. In spite of this, there was considerable besmirching and defaming to be seen in the early silent films featuring Sherlock Holmes, which effectively turned him into an action hero due to the lack of sound. When sound films took the industry by storm in the late 1920s, there were a numbers of pretenders who reached for the Sherlock Holmes crown, including Clive Brook, Reginald Owen, and Raymond Massey, but it took more than a decade before a new definitive Sherlock Holmes would be crowned in 1939 in the person of Basil Rathbone.

The perfect gift for the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle fan, The Complete Sherlock Holmes is an elegant edition boasting the entire Sherlock Holmes catalog including 4 full-length novels and 56 short stories.

This volume one consists of 6 short stories taking from the book. The Adventure of the Empty House follows Holmes, who is believed to have fallen to his death in the waterfall, returns to London and works with Watson to solve a shooting case. The Adventure of the Norwood Builder tells how Holmes helps the heir of a dead man to prove his innocence. The Adventure of the Dancing Men is about Holmes solving a code with a childish-looking scrawl. In The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist, Holmes is approached by Miss Violet, a lady being stalked while cycling. The Adventure of the Priory School is a case about one kidnapped pupil, but with a huge conspiracy behind it. The Adventure of Black Peter tells the investigation of Captain Peter’s death, who has a reputation as a most unpleasant man, prone to violent outbursts when drunk.

Collects Doyle's short stories that star Sherlock Holmes, each of which is annotated to provide literary and cultural details about Victorian society, and also includes biographies of Holmes, Dr. Watson, and the author himself.