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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (The World's Best Reading) and The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (The World's Best Reading) by Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (The World's Best Reading) Full Leather Hardcover 270 pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Reader's Digest World's Best Reading Reprint edition 1987. Handsome black leather boards with 1/4 brown spine and gilt embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear - a small cut on front cover and a small scratch on back cover. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (The World's Best Reading) Full Leather Hardcover 219 pages. Condition Fine Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Reader's Digest World's Best Reading Reprint edition 1993. Beautiful brown leather boards with 1/4 brown spine and gilt embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. No shelf wear. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Each with Laid in four page brochure. ==== The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. It was first published on 14 October 1892; the individual stories had been serialised in The Strand Magazine between July 1891 and June 1892. The most recognized detective in all of literature, Sherlock Holmes emerged on the crime scene in A Study in Scarlet in 1887. His deductive reasoning, keen insight, skillful observations, and investigative tactics became the tools necessary to solve riveting and intriguing crimes that continue to delight generations of readers. Nothing compares to the original. If you really want to know Holmes and Watson, this is what you should read. The characterization and pacing is delightful. The insights into a London of trains and mail more than once a day, the manners of the time, the dialogue . . . this is a feast. ==== Collection of Sherlock Holmes stories which includes seven stories from His Last Bow and four additional non-canonical stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. As Philip Shreffler points out in his afterword to this volume (1993) most Sherlock Holmes stories were written when the London they evoked was already passing away. Thus they appealed to the nostalgia of their readers. "His Last Bow", concerns Holmes' final adventure, which occurred in 1914. They are all top-notch, as were all Holmes stories in general. They make great reading, whether you are a real mystery fan or just enjoy very good writing. Includes: The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans The Adventure of the Devil's Foot The Adventure of the Red Circle The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax The Adventure of the Dying Detective His Last Bow The Story of the Man with the Watches The Story of the Lost Special The Field Bazaar How Watson Learned the Trick Afterword by Philip A. Shreffler, long-time member of the famous Sherlock Holmes society known as 'The Baker Street Irregulars'