"There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colorless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it". Watson mused over Holmes' words. He had met the amateur sleuth for the first time only a short while before, and already Sherlock Holmes has astonished him with his amazing powers of detection - as he was to continue to do throughout their long life together. In this, their first adventure, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson undercover a thrilling story of murder, love and revenge, which began years before in Salt Lake City.

When an Englishwoman receives mysterious gifts of pearls and a letter promising to right wrongs done to her, she calls upon Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to investigate.

(Includes: 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 Blue Carbuncle, The Speckled Band, The Engineer's Thumb, The Noble Bachelor, The Beryl Coronet, The Copper Beeches)

Containing some of Sherlock Holmes' most famous cases, in which his eagle eye and brilliant brain are stretched to the limits. Amid the foggy streets of sinister London and the even more sinister smiling countryside, Holmes and Watson once more solve the unsolvable. In The Speckled Band, The Scandal in Bohemia, The Engineer's Thumb and nine other intriguing stories, the great master-mind of detection grapples with every extremes of treachery, duplicity and murderous evil.

(Includes: Silver Blaze, The Yellow Face, The Stock-broker's Clerk, The 'Gloria Scott', The Musgrave Ritual, The Reigate Squires, The Crooked Man, The Resident Patient, The Greek Interhometer, The Naval Treaty, The Final Problem)

Eleven adventures from the crowded life of Sherlock Holmes. With Watson at his side Holmes investigates such famous cases as the disappearance of Silver Blaze, the favorite for the Wessex Cup, and the supposed murder of Colonel Barclay of the Royal Mallows. And reminiscing by the fire of a winter's night, he tells Watson of some of his earlier adventures, such as the extraordinary case of the Gloria Scott and the curious episode of the Musgrave Ritual. Cases and reminiscences culminate in The Final Problem when Holmes meets at the Reichenbach Falls, in that intriguing and deadly encounter with Professor Moriarty, the Napoleon of Crime.

The Hound of the Baskervilles (Classic Mystery Fiction)

In one of their most mysterious cases, Holmes and Watson pursue an unknown evil said to prowl the moors. And when their exquisitely cunning opponent appears in the guise of Holmes himself, the stakes grow higher in a maze of deception that could prove even too much for the prodigious powers of Sherlock Holmes.

(Includes: The Empty House, The Norwood Builder, The Dancing Men, The Solitary Cyclist, The Priory School, Black Peter, Charles Augustus Milverton, The Six Napoleons, The Three Students, The Golden Pince-Nez, The Missing Three-Quarter, The Abbey Grange, The Second Stain)

'I gave a gasp and a cry of amazement … The shadow of a man who was seated in a chair within was thrown in hard, black outline upon the luminous screen of the window. There was no mistaking the poise of the head, the squareness of the shoulders, the sharpness of the features…' Assumed dead after his terrible encounter with that master of crime, Professor Moriarty, at the Reichenbach Falls, Sherlock Holmes returns to astonish the world by telling the story of his miraculous escape and the succeeding years of deception. Together again, Holmes and Watson embark on yet more intriguing and dangerous adventures, as they face some of their most challenging cases, notable those of The Dancing Men and The Solitary Cyclist.

The Valley of Fear

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are asked to help solve a rich American's mysterious murder in a manor house in Sussex, England.

(Includes: Wisteria Lodge, The Cardboard Box, The Red Circle, The Bruce-Partington Plans, The Dying Detective, Lady Frances Carfax, The Devil's Foot, His Last Bow).

Eight world-famous cases from Doctor Watson's portfolio that illustrate the singular mental faculties of Sherlock Holmes. A body on the London Underground; the strange disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax; a parcel containing coarse salt and two freshly severed ears … In the course of these investigations, Holmes himself is struck down by a virulent Eastern disease, and we are introduced to his remarkable brother Mycroft - 'all the men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience'. Finally, with the approach of the German War, Holmes emerges from retirement among his books and bees on the South Downs to lay his unique intellect at the disposal of the British Government, with the historic results disclosed in 'His Last Bow'.

(Includes: The Illustrious Client, The Blanched Soldier, The Mazarin Stone, The Three Gables, The Sussex Vampire, The Three Garridebs, Thor Bridge, The Creeping Man, The Lion's Mane, The Veiled Lodger, Shoscombe Old Place, The Retired Colourman)

The twelve last cases in the amazing career of Sherlock Holmes. Restored to popular demand after his last struggle with Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls, the austere Victorian detective once more dons his cape and takes up his magnifying glass. Here then, for the last time, Sherlock Holmes, accompanied by the faithful Watson, uses his astounding methods of scientific deduction to solve the unsolvable.

Complete Sherlock Holmes Stories

All four long stories and all fifty-six short stories in one volume.