Am dining at Goldinis 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 games afoot for the most famous amateur detective of all time in this collection of eight of Sir Arthur Conan Doyles 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 redheaded 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 runup 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 deerstalker!

Binding: Hardback;352 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: YFCF; Weight: 646 g; Dimensions: 210 x 161 x 22

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