The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - Couverture souple

MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES.* SILVER BLAZE. AM afraid, Watson, that I shall have to go," said Holmes, as we sat down together to our breakfast one morning. "Go! Where to?" " To Dartmoor-to King's Pyland." I was not surprised. Indeed, my only wonder was that he had not already been mixed up in this extraordinary case, which was the one topic of conversation through the length and breadth of England. For a whole day my companion had rambled about the room with his chin upon his chest and his brows knitted, charging and re-charging his pipe with the strongest black tobacco, and absolute!}' deaf to any of my questions or remarks. Fresh editions of every paper had been sent up by our newsagent only to be glanced over and tossed clown into a corner. Yet, silent as he was, 1 knew perfectly well what it was over which he was brooding. There was but one problem before the public which could challenge his powers of analysis, and that was the singular disappearance of the favourite fo

Table of Contents

Silver Blaze ; The Yellow Face The Stockbroker's Clerk The "Gloria Scott" The Musgrave Ritual The Reigate Squires The Crooked Man The Resident Patient The Greek Interpreter The Naval Treaty The Final Problem

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The hit BBC series Sherlock has introduced a new generation to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective. This edition of the classic novel, with an introduction by Sherlock writer Steve Thompson, allows fans to discover the power of those original adventures.

In this collection of eleven Sherlock Holmes stories, the detective tackles cases ranging from missing race horses to stolen naval treaties; but nothing can prepare him for the challenge of 'The Final Problem' in which Dr Watson takes up his pen 'with a heavy heart' to tell the story of Holmes's most dramatic encounter with his nemesis, the criminal mastermind Professor Moriaty.