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The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes: Including A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Valley of Fear and fifty-six short stories

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Description for The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes: Including A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Valley of Fear and fifty-six short stories Paperback. Features sixty adventures that pit Sherlock Holmes' extraordinary wits and courage against foreign spies, blackmailers, cultists, petty thieves, murderers, swindlers, policemen (both stupid and clever), and his arch-nemesis Moriarty, together with his faithful sidekick Doctor John H Watson. Num Pages: 1136 pages. BIC Classification: FFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 153 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1082.

SHERLOCK HOLMES IS NOT ONLY THE MOST FAMOUS CHARACTER IN CRIME FICTION BUT THE MOST FAMOUS CHARACTER IN ALL OF FICTION.

'Holmes has a timeless intelligence that puts him head, shoulders and deer-stalker above all other detectives' Alexander McCall Smith

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This complete volume contains four novels and fifty-six short stories about the most engaging detective of all time, with a foreword by crime writer Ruth Rendell.

Sherlock Holmes, together with his faithful sidekick Doctor John H. Watson, proves himself as the quintessential detective. Time after time his pits his extraordinary wits and courage against foreign spies, ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
1136
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141040288
SKU
9780141040288
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) studied medicine at Edinburgh University, where he became the clerk to a surgeon whose diagnostic methods provided the model for the science of deduction perfected by Sherlock Holmes. He set up as a doctor and it was while waiting for patients that he began to write. Sherlock Holmes first appeared in A Study in Scarlet ... Read more

Reviews for The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes: Including A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Valley of Fear and fifty-six short stories
Holmes is a mesmerising creation and Conan Doyle a master storyteller
The Times
The immense talent, passion and literary brilliance that Conan Doyle brought to his work gives him a unique place in English letters... Personally, I'd walk a million in tight boots just to read his letters to the milkman.
Stephen Fry Why do people still ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes: Including A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Valley of Fear and fifty-six short stories


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