Sherlock Holmes is perhaps the best-known of all fictional characters. From the first appearance of the short stories in the Strand Magazine chronicling his extraordinary deductive powers,Holmes became a larger-than-life figure whose devotees were stricken when it seemed that the great detective had perished at the Reichenbach Falls in The Final Problem. Young men put mourning crape on their hats. Eventually the author was forced by public demand reluctantly to resurrect his hero. From that day, a literary cult was born and continues unabated to this day. Perhaps it is best exemplified by the Baker Street Irregulars, who exist to perpetuate the memory, methods and iconography of the great detective. Its members comprise diplomats, judges and academics, as well as great numbers of ordinary readers who enjoy the romance and atmosphere of Conan Doyle's creation.

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This volume completes the canon of th, Sherlock Holmes stories, reproducing the origina from the Strand Magazine, many of them by Sidndy Paget. It contains the twelve stories from The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes an dithe eight stories frcm His LastBow. At the,end of his last case Sherloc Holmes goesto Sussex to enjoy retirement and to keep bees.

THE CASEBOOK OF SHERLOCK HOLMES

1 The Illustrious Client

2 The Blanched Soldier

3 The Mazarin Stone

4 The Three Gables

5 The Sussex Vampire

6 The Three Garridebs

7 Thor Bridge

8  The Creeping Man

9  The Lion's Mane

10 The Veiled Lodger

11 Shoscombe OM Place

12 The Retired Colourman

HIS LAST BOW

1  Wisteria Lodge

2  The Cardboard Box

3  The Red Circle

4  The Bruce-Partington Plans

5  The Dying Detective

6  The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax

7  The Devil's Foot

8  His Last Bow