The Best of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twenty of the very best tales from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fifty-six short stories featuring the arch sleuth. Basing his selection around the author's own twelve personal favourites, David Stuart Davies has added a further eight sparkling stories to Conan Doyle's 'Baker Street Dozen', creating a unique volume which distils the pure essence of the world's most famous detective.

Within these pages the reader will encounter the greatest collection of villains and the weirdest and most puzzling mysteries ever seen in print. And thereat the centre, in a London swathed in eddies of fog and illuminated by gaslight, is to be found the remarkable character of Sherlock Holmes and his staunch companion, Doctor lohn H. Watson. Few will be able to resist this invitation to step aboard the waiting hansom cab and rattle off along cobbled streets into unirnagined dangers and intrigues.

A Scandal in Bohemia

First published in The Strand Magazine, July 1891

The Red-Headed League

First published in The Strand Magazine, August 1891

The Five Orange Pips

First published in The Strand Magazine, November 1891

The Man with the Twisted Lip

First published in The Strand Magazine, December 1891

The Blue Carbuncle

First published in The Strand Magazine, January 1892

The Speckled Band

First published in The Strand Magazine, February 1892

The Copper Beeches

First published in The Strand Magazine, June 1892

Silver Blaze

First published in The Strand Magazine, December 1892

The Musgrave Ritual

First published in The Strand Magazine, May 1893

The Reigate Squires

First published in The Strand Magazine, June 1893

The Greek Interpreter

First published in The Strand Magazine, September 1893

The Final Problem

First published in The Strand Magazine, December 1893

The Empty House

First published in The Strand Magazine, October 19o3

The Dancing Men

First published in The Strand Magazine, December 19o3

The Solitary Cyclist

First published in The Strand Magazine, January 1904

The Priory School

First published in The Strand Magazine, February 1904

Charles Augustus Milverton

First published in The Strand Magazine, April 19o4

The Second Stain

First published in The Strand Magazine, December 1904

The Devil's Foot

  First published in The Strand Magazine, December 1910

The Illustrious Client

  First published in The Strand Magazine,

 February-March 1925