Sherlock Holmes

Am dining at Goldini's Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington. Please come at once and join me there. Bring with you a jemmy, a dark lantern, a chisel, and a revolver - S. H.' The game's afoot for the most famous amateur detective of all time in this collection of eight of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic tales.'The Speckled Band', a Victorian melodrama in a country house, comes complete with murderous villain, murdered heroine, and a very unpleasant snake; 'Silver Blaze' tells of a missing race horse on Dartmoor which turns out not to be missing at all, and a murder that never was. In 'The Redheaded League' a pawnbroker answers an advertisement for a red-headed man and bizarrely finds himself copying out the Encyclopedia Britannica; in 'The Bruce Partington Plans' Holmes is skulking in the London Underground with a dead body when his patriotic services are called upon to find some stolen state secrets in the run-up to World War I. Sidney Paget was the original illustrator and helped to form the image of Sherlock Holmes which exists to this day - in fact, it was he who created the famous deer-stalker!

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Arthur Conan Doyle, illustrated by Sidney Paget

Product details

• Authors: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Assisted by: Sidney Paget (Illustration)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 9 to 11
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.10.1996
• EAN: 9781857155013
• ISBN: 978-1-85715-501-3
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 210 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Everyman's Library CHILDREN'S CLASSICS; Everyman's Library CHILDREN'S CLASSICS
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Children's books up to 11 years of age; JUVENILE FICTION / Mysteries & Detective Stories, Interest age: from c 9 years, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Crime and mystery fiction