Sherlock: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock T.V. Tie in)

by Arthur Conan Doyle (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2012

  $3.31

  The hit BBC series Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, offers a fresh, contemporary take on the original Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stories, and has helped introduce a whole new generation of fans to the legendary detective. This TV tie-in edition to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's second collection of Sherlock Holmes short stories, which was first published in 1894, includes the infamous 'The Final Problem'. It is one of Conan Doyle's favourite Sherlock tales and the detective's deadliest challenge. This is the ultimate thriller, in which Sherlock meets his intellectual match: the criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty. As Moriarty pushes Sherlock to his intellectual limits, this game of cat and mouse will test not only their wits but their mortality.

• Used

  Paperback
  2008

  $4.42

  Sherlock Holmes' fame has also brought him notoriety and there are those in the criminal underworld who must move against him or find their schemes in ruins ...While Holmes and Dr Watson solve what will become some of their most famous cases - Silver Blaze , The Greek Interpreter and The Musgrave Ritual among them - the forces of international crime plot their revenge against the detective. And it is in The Final Problem that Dr Watson has the sad task of telling the grisly, fatal and shocking tale that saw Holmes finally meet his match - in the guise of the diabolical Professor Moriarty and a terrible struggle at the Reichenbach Falls...

• Used

  Hardcover
  1993

  $3.31

  The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes are overshadowed by the event with which they close - the meeting of the great detective and Moriarty, the Napoleon of Crime. Their struggle, seemingly to the death, was to leave many readers desolate at the loss of Holmes, but was also to lead to his immortality as a literary figure.

• New

  Paperback
  2006

  $14.92

  'He is the Napoleon of Crime...He is the organiser of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city'.

  A man like Sherlock Holmes has many enemies. Violent murderers, deviant villains, ghosts of old loves, blackmailers and poisonous scribes, to to name but a few. But none are so deadly, so powerful, as Professor Moriarty. Moriarty - the only man who can compete with Holmes' genius. The only man who can, perhaps, ultimately defeat the great detective ...