Since his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual 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!
Volume II begins with The Hound of the Baskervilles, a haunting novel of murder on eerie Grimpen Moor, which has rightly earned its reputation as the finest murder mystery ever written. The Valley of Fear matches Holmes against his archenemy, the master of imaginative crime, Professor Moriarty. In addition, the loyal Dr. Watson has faithfully recorded Holmes’s feats of extraordinary detection in such famous cases as the thrilling The Adventure of the Red Circle and the twelve baffling adventures from The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes.
Conan Doyle’s incomparable tales bring to life a Victorian England of horse-drawn cabs, fogs, and the famous lodgings at 221B Baker Street, where for more than forty years Sherlock Holmes earned his undisputed reputation as the greatest fictional detective of all time.
Excellent Stories, Terrible Production Value on These Editions
"The stories and novels themselves, of course, are excellent. These Bantam editions, however, are poorly made. I take great care of my books - you'd often have a hard time telling I've opened them at all! - but I had gone only a few pages into the first novel when pages became detached from the inside. The glue/binding method is very low quality. It now looks like I had pulled random pages from the book and tried to clumsily shove them back in. There are many, many, editions of Sherlock Holmes' stories available. I advise you pay the extra few dollars and buy one other than the Bantam editions."
