Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Pages: 248
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is perhaps the greatest collection of detective short stories ever written. It was these tales penned by Arthur Conan Doyle that first introduced the magical and eccentric character of Sherlock Holmes to the readers of a popular London magazine of the day, The Strand Magazine, published over the course of 2 years. In his consulting room at 221B Baker Street, the master sleuth, helped by his pipe, his violin, his use of cocaine, and with trusty Dr. Watson by his side, receives a stream of vividly eccentric characters all presenting him with baffling and bizarre puzzles for him to solve. There is, for example, the man frightened for his life because of the arrival of an envelope containing orange pips; the terrified woman aware that her life is in danger and who cannot explain the strange whistling sounds she hears in the night; the woman whose fiancé disappeared on his way to their wedding...and more. In such stories as" A Scandal in Bohemia" and "The Redheaded League," Holmes is equal to these and the other challenges, demonstrating the powers of observation and deduction that continually confound and amaze Dr. Watson.