There's mystery,danger and death in the air-The game is afoot.

He's rude, arrogant, cold, unfriendly, and easily bored. Nobody minds. Because he is a genius at solving mysteries. But, to interest Holmes at all, the case must be impossible.

He's rude, arrogant, cold, unfriendly, and easily bored. Nobody minds. Because he is a genius at solving mysteries. But, to interest Holmes at all, the case must be impossible.

Like the mysteries of: the blackmail scheme that might destroy a nation. The woman killed in a locked room-while screaming about a "band"The man who writes his wife-days after his murder. The jewel in the goose, the engineer"s severed thumb, the seeds that grow death……

Whether lost fiances or lost fortunes, sinister accidents or weird conspiracies, the unnatural or the"supernatural" - the paths of mystery and murder lead to 221B Baker Street, to loyal Dr. Watson and……To Holmes.

THE LIFE OF SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

FOREWORD

A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA

THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE

A CASE OF IDENTITY

THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY

THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS

THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP

THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE

THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND

THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER"S THUMB

THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR

THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET

THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES

AFTERWORD