English writer Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) entered world literature history as the creator of Sherlock Holmes—the brilliant detective from Baker Street, 221B. The adventures of Holmes and his friend, Dr. Watson, have held the attention of readers across the world for more than a century. Even the name “Sherlock Holmes” has become a household term. And it’s no accident: the stories and novellas about this immortal hero display all the virtues of top-class fiction—rich invention, impeccable intrigue, an accurate and effortless style of narration, and the hero himself embodies the ideal of a chivalrous fighter against evil embodied in crime.
This volume includes a collection of stories by A. Conan Doyle titled “The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes” (1892–1893). In the last one, the author makes his hero die at the hands of his bitter enemy, Professor Moriarty.
Contents:
• About Sherlock Holmes
• The Sign of the Four
• A Scandal in Bohemia
• The League of the Red-Headed
• Establishing Identity
• The Boscombe Valley Mystery
• Five Orange Pips
• The Man with the Split Lip
• The Blue Carbuncle
• The Speckled Band
• The Engineer’s Thumb
• The Noble Bachelor
• The Beryl Coronet
• “Copper Beeches”
• The Hound of the Baskervilles
• Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. The Silver
• The Final Problem