The Very Best of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

A selection of the most thrilling detective stories ever written by the master storyteller. Sherlock Holmes, the world’s cleverest detective, sets forth in this collection of six extraordinary stories to solve some of the most intriguing cases of his career. What was the mysterious ‘speckled band’ that a woman referred to with her dying breath? What do the dancing men signify and why do they bring death in their wake? Is there really a league of red-headed men, or is it a conspiracy so audacious that only Holmes can sense it? Will Sherlock Holmes meet his end at the hands of the evil Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls? The cases of Sherlock Holmes have held readers spellbound ever since they were first published. In 1927, the stories in this volume were chosen by the author himself as some of the best he had written. Introduced here by Ruskin Bond,  The Very Best of Sherlock Holmes  presents the great detective in all his brilliant glory for a new generation of readers.

152 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 10, 2017

About the author

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a Scottish writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones in the field of crime fiction.

Doyle was a prolific writer. In addition to the Holmes stories, his works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger, and humorous stories about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels. One of Doyle's early short stories, "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" (1884), helped to popularise the mystery of the brigantine Mary Celeste, found drifting at sea with no crew member aboard.

Reviews

[Camille · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very fun collection and I’m glad The Final Problem and its sequel were included.

[Emily · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5 Some of the best Sherlock stories truly are in this collection. Speckled band, red-headed league, and dancing men. Also no study of Sherlock would be complete without the final problem (Moriarty!) and then his return in The Adventure of the Empty House. I don’t care for The Five Orange Pips as much.