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Arthur Conan Doyle
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English
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This splendid collection of mysteries carries readers back to a gas-lit era, when literature's greatest detective team lived on Baker Street. A dozen of Holmes and Watson's best-known cases include "The Speckled Band," "The Red-Headed League," The Five Orange Pips," "The Copper Beeches," and "A Scandal in Bohemia."
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English
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A master of deductive reasoning who can solve the most difficult crimes by spotting obscure clues overlooked by others, dilettante sleuth Sherlock Holmes was the hero of sixty stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle between 1887 and 1927. He even rose from the dead after Doyle tried to dispatch him in his twenty-fourth adventure, and readers protested. Here, in one volume, are all four full-length novels and fifty-six short stories about the colourful...
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W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2006
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907 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
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English
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A compendium of four classic Sherlock Holmes novels features more than one thousand accompanying notes, three hundred and fifty illustrations and period photographs, and a wealth of new theories.
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Tantor Audio
Pub. Date
p2009
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MP3-CD Unabridged.
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1 sound disc (ca. 5.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The most famous introduction in the history of crime fiction takes place in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet, bringing together Sherlock Holmes, the Master of Science detection, and John H. Watson, the great detective's faithful chronicler. Included with this audiobook is the bonus Sherlock Holmes tale The Adventure of the Speckled Band.
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English
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After failing to stop the murder of Jack Douglas from happening, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves anxious to solve this mystery. The suspect has seemingly vanished into thin air and the mystery solving duo will stop at nothing to catch this murderer who blatantly killed a man in his own castle.
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Reader's Digest Association
Pub. Date
c1986
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301 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Study in Scarlet is the story that introduced the world to Sherlock Holmes. Hound of the Baskervilles : For generations the curse had hung over the Baskerville family. Now another life had been claimed by the mysterious and terrifying beast. Was it a demon or an animal lurking on the descolate moor? Would the new master of the Baskerville home be its next victim?
13) The lost world
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English
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Victorian explorers have heard there is a remote plateau where dinosaurs still survive and a group set out on a dangerous mission to find out more about it.
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W.W. Norton
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©2005-©2006.
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1st edition
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3 volumes : illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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This monumental edition promises to be the most important new contribution to Sherlock Holmes literature since William Baring-Gould's 1967 classic work. In this boxed set, Leslie Klinger, a leading world authority, reassembles Arthur Conan Doyle's 56 classic short stories in the order in which they appeared in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century book editions. Inside, readers will find a cornucopia of insights: beginners will benefit from...
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English
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"1894. The monstrous Hound of the Baskervilles has been dead for five years, along with its no less monstrous owner, the naturalist Jack Stapleton. Sir Henry Baskerville is living contentedly at Baskerville Hall with his new wife Audrey and their young son Harry. Until, that is, Audrey's lifeless body is found on the moors, drained of blood. It would appear some fiendish creature is once more at large on Dartmoor and has, like its predecessor, targeted...
