The Sherlock Holmes stories stretch from the 1880s to the 1920s．but the two volumes here in one are quite close together in dates of composition，the Hound in 1902 and the Return in 1905．This places them right at the end of Victoria’s reign and the tensions in the society and philosophies of that particular time can be discerned within the relatively narrow formulaic limits of the detective story.

After Sherlock Holmes" apparently fatal encounterwith the sinister Professor Moriarty at theReichenbach Falls, the great detective reappears,to the delight of the faithful Dr Watson in The Adventure of the Empty House.This follows the celebrated full-length The Hound ofthe Baskervilles. The stories are illustrated by SidneyPaget, the finest of illustrators, from whom ourimages of Sherlock Holmes and his world derive.This is the second of three volumes of TheComplete Sherlock Howlmes reproduced from originalcopies of The Strand Magnzine. The three bookspresent all the Holmes stories arrangedchronologically in order of first publication.

THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES

(1901-2)

I Mr Sherlock Holmes

II The Curse of the Baskervilles

III The Problem

IV Sir Henry Baskerville

V The Broken Threads

VI Baskerville Hall

VII The Stapletons of Merripit House

VIII First Report of Dr Watson

IX Second Report of Dr Watson

X Extract from the Diary of Dr Watson

XI The Man on the Tor

XII Death on the Moor

XIII Fixing the Nets

XlV The Hound of the Baskervilles

XV A Retrospection

THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES

(1903-4)

I The Adventure of the Empty House

II The Adventure of the Nonvood Builder

III The Adventure of the Dancing Men

IV The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist

V The Adventure of the Priory School

V1 The Adventure of the Black Peter

VII The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton

VIII The Adventure of the Six Napoleons

IX The Adventure of the Three Students

X The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez

XI The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter

XII The Adventure of the Abbey Grange

XIII The Adventure of the Second Stain

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