the selected adventures and memoirs of sherlock holmes

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Technical specifications: Quarter-bound in blocked cloth with blocked cloth case sides Set in Laurentian with Clarendon display 280 pages Frontispiece and 8 black & white integrated illustrations Blocked slipcase 9½˝ x 6¼˝. It's also, considering the quality, being sold relatively cheaply. As winner of the Book Illustration Competition 2018, hosted annually by The Folio Society and. but if you are not overly familiar with them then that's an additional bonus and all the reason you need to pick this up. THE SELECTED ADVENTURES AND MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES. There's also an interesting introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning literary journalist Michael Dirda. Housed in a sturdy slipcase, the book contains 280 pages with some beautifully eerie illustrations by Max Löffler. In between, Holmes must foil a bank heist in The Red-Headed League, locate a missing race horse in Silver Blaze, and deduce how a man died in a locked room with just his innocent wife present in The Crooked Man.įor fans of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, the Folio Society once again deliver a lovingly crafted keepsake that can be read and cherished.

The Selected Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes contains 10 classic Holmes stories, beginning with A Scandal in Bohemia – the only Sherlock Holmes story to feature his female adversary Irene Adler – and reach a thrilling finale that features a duel with his nemesis Professor Moriarty in The Final Problem. Together, the pair investigates the insalubrious environs of Victorian London to solve a string of complex crimes. Holmes has become the most lauded sleuth in literature, his capricious character kept on a level by his unflappable assistant, Dr Watson. The Adventures and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. The brilliant detective shows off his incredible powers of deduction in this new collection of ten perennially popular cases chosen from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. The Selected Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Folio Society Hardback) Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

The selected adventures and memoirs of sherlock holmes