The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Oxford World's Classics)

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Author), Richard Lancelyn Green (Editor)

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  Paperback
  1998

  $3.25

  The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand magazine, in which they were first published, and won immense popularity for Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. The detective is at the height of his powers and the volume is full of famous cases, including The Red-Headed League , The Blue Carbuncle , and The Speckled Band . Although Holmes gained a reputation for infallibility, Conan Doyle showed his own realism and feminism by having the great detective defeated by Irene Adler - a woman - in the very first story, A Scandal in Bohemia .

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  Paperback
  1987

  $3.25

• Used

  Hardcover
  1986

  $3.25

• New

  Paperback
  2008

  $9.31

  Out of his smoke-filled rooms in Baker Street stalks a figure to cause the criminal classes to quake in their boots and rush from their dens of inequity ...The twelve mysteries gathered in this first collection of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson's adventures reveal the brilliant consulting detective at the height of his powers. Problems involving a man with a twisted lip, a fabulous blue carbuncle and five orange pips tax Sherlock Holmes' intellect alongside some of his most famous cases, including A Scandal in Bohemia and The Red-Headed League.