Complete Sherlock Holmes (Wordsworth Library Collection) [Hardcover]

"Too much Holmes is no more likely than too much foie gras and no less desirable... Will delight his fans" --Observer --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

A LUXURY EDITION CELEBRATING ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE'S 150th ANNIVERSARY --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

It is more than a century since the ascetic, gaunt and enigmatic detective, Sherlock Holmes, made his first appearance in A Study in Scarlet. From 1891, beginning with The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the now legendary and pioneering Strand Magazine began serialising Arthur Conan Doyle's matchless tales of detection, featuring the incomparable sleuth patiently assisted by his doggedly loyal and lovably pedantic friend and companion, Dr Watson. The stories are illustrated by the remarkable Sydney Paget from whom our images of Sherlock Holmes and his world derive and who first equipped Holmes with his famous deerstalker hat. The literary cult of Sherlock Holmes shows no sign of fading with time as each new generation comes to love and revere the penetrating mind and ruthless logic which were the undoing of so many Victorian master criminals.

Bellyband: A LUXURY EDITION CELEBRATING ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE'S 150th ANNIVERSARY --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a Scottish writer, most noted for his stories about Detective Sherlock Holmes, widely considered an innovation in crime fiction writing. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.