Great product!</br></br>Product Description</br></br><b>Sherlock Holmes<br>The Complete Novels and Stories<br><br>Volume I<br></b><br>Since his first appearance in <i>Beeton’s Christmas Annual</i> in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyle’s classic hero--a truly complete collection of Sherlock Holmes’s adventures in crime!<br><br>Volume I includes the early novel <b>A Study in Scarlet</b>, which introduced the eccentric genius of Sherlock Holmes to the world. This baffling murder mystery, with the cryptic word Rache written in blood, first brought Holmes together with Dr. John Watson. Next, <b>The Sign of Four</b> presents Holmes’s famous “seven percent solution” and the strange puzzle of Mary Morstan in the quintessential locked-room mystery. <br><br>Also included are Holmes’s feats of extraordinary detection in such famous cases as the chilling <b>“ The Adventure of the Speckled Band,”</b> the baffling riddle of <b>“The Musgrave Ritual,”</b> and the ingeniously plotted <b>“The Five Orange Pips,”</b> tales that bring to life a Victorian England of horse-drawn cabs, fogs, and the famous lodgings at 221B Baker Street, where Sherlock Holmes earned his undisputed reputation as the greatest fictional detective of all time.</br></br>Amazon.com Review</br></br>This volume, authorized by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's estate, contains all 4 full-length novels and all 56 short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes. At over a thousand pages, the weighty tome is a perfect gift for budding amateur sleuths, and it is an ideal companion for a long stay on a desert island (or a leisurely trip through the English countryside). As the reader wades past the tense introductions of <I>A Study in Scarlet</I> and moves towards such classic tales as <I>The Hound of the Baskervilles</I>, "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," and "The Final Problem," she is sure to draw her own conclusions about Holmes's veiled past and his quirky relationship with his "Boswell," Watson. Doyle never revealed much about Holmes's early life, but the joy of reading the complete Holmes is assembling the trivia of each story into something like a portrait of the detective and his creator. By the end of the long journey through London and across Europe (with a long stopover at Reichenbach Falls), one is apt to have found a friend for life. <I>--Patrick O'Kelley</I></br><br/>http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553212419