The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Few names in literary history command the same electric recognition as Sherlock Holmes, the razor-minded consulting detective of 221B Baker Street, whose genius for deduction transformed the crime fiction genre forever. The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle presents the entire canonical collection of Holmes adventures in a single authoritative volume, uniting four novels and five collections of short stories — from the landmark debut A Study in Scarlet and the atmospheric The Hound of the Baskervilles to the intricate puzzles of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, The Sign of Four, The Valley of Fear, His Last Bow, and The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle's prose is a masterclass in economy and atmosphere, weaving fog-drenched Victorian London into a living backdrop for narratives that are simultaneously thrilling puzzles and incisive portraits of human nature. The partnership between the brilliant, mercurial Holmes and the steadfast Dr. Watson chronicles a world of criminal intrigue with wit, ingenuity, and unrelenting suspense. Towering above the genre it helped define, this complete collection stands as an indispensable cornerstone of world literature — and once you open the first page, the game, as Holmes himself would say, is very much afoot.
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Format: Hardback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Few names in literary history command the same electric recognition as Sherlock Holmes, the razor-minded consulting detective of 221B Baker Street, whose genius for deduction transformed the crime fiction genre forever. The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle presents the entire canonical collection of Holmes adventures in a single authoritative volume, uniting four novels and five collections of short stories — from the landmark debut A Study in Scarlet and the atmospheric The Hound of the Baskervilles to the intricate puzzles of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, The Sign of Four, The Valley of Fear, His Last Bow, and The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle's prose is a masterclass in economy and atmosphere, weaving fog-drenched Victorian London into a living backdrop for narratives that are simultaneously thrilling puzzles and incisive portraits of human nature. The partnership between the brilliant, mercurial Holmes and the steadfast Dr. Watson chronicles a world of criminal intrigue with wit, ingenuity, and unrelenting suspense. Towering above the genre it helped define, this complete collection stands as an indispensable cornerstone of world literature — and once you open the first page, the game, as Holmes himself would say, is very much afoot.