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Short Stories about Sherlock Holmes: Part I
Short Stories about Sherlock Holmes Part I Author:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Despite its title, this collection includes the first two Holmes novels-A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four-along with the twelve short stories contained in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Among the highlights are: The Sign of Four: When the beautiful Mary Morstan consults Sherlock Holmes regarding a very strange series of gifts, the dete... more »ctive is quickly caught up in a complicated web whose threads lead back to a decades-old murder in India. "A Scandal in Bohemia": Holmes encounters Irene Adler, a beautiful seductress who foils his attempts to retrieve a compromising photograph on behalf of the king of Bohemia. "The Red-Headed League": A bizarre and amusing case involving a league of red-headed men puts Holmes on the trail of John Clay, who intends to rob a crate of French gold from the City and Suburban Bank. "The Adventure of the Speckled Band": Helen Stoner wakes Holmes and Watson in the middle of the night to engage them in a grotesque series of events involving her poker-bending stepfather, a ventilator that does not ventilate, and a dying sister\'s last words. "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches": A case that Holmesinitially considers the "zero-point" of his career quickly mutates into something very different when Violet Hunter, a governess seeking a post, is employed by a man whose "whimsand fancies" require her to alter her appearance drastically and to dress in a proscribedfashion.« less