221B Baker Street. The most beloved fictional detective is in pursuit of the absolute truth. Dr. Watson, his sidekick and biographer, cannot help but marvel at his friend's impeccable logic and scientific acumen in unravelling the mysteries of crimes that have besieged London. What Holmes thinks elementary, Watson finds extraordinary. Victorian England is resurrected as we follow Holmes and Watson in their adventures. Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels & Stories 1 & 2 promise an enchanting world of the most baffling and uncanny mysteries ever told. Most of these stories first appeared in Strand Magazine and were later published as a collection in 1892. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Return of Sherlock Holmes and The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes add value to this keepsake edition of Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels & Stories 1 & 2. A delightful companion for all crime fiction fanatics!

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.

Sherlock Holmes: Volume 1 is a great introduction to the world's most famous pipe-smoking detective, Holmes himself. Experience two complete novels and two collections of short stories now! Sherlock Holmes, Volume 1 is a great introduction to the series which features the early works written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Included are the novels A Study in Scarlet (1887) and The Sign of the Four (1890) and the short story collections The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1891-1892) and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1892-1893). From his home at 221B Baker Street in London, the legendary Sherlock Holmes, accompanied by his loyal companion and chronicler, Dr. Watson, employs his mastery of deductive reasoning and expert sleuthing to solve an arraying of complex and harrowing cases, baffling the police and becoming internationally renowned for his remarkable observations and even more eccentric habits. Complete and unabridged, this edition features a new introduction by Roger Boylan. See the world's greatest detective in action! The Knickerbocker Classics bring together the works of classic authors from around the world in stunning gift editions to be collected and enjoyed.

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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.

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.