ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES Paperback – 1 January 2016 by CONAN DOYLE (Author, Preface)

Sherlock Holmes, the very name immediately conjures up an image of a tall, thin, shrewd man dressed in a loose overcoat, smoking a pipe and sporting a deerstalker hat. The famous literary detective’s keen deduction skills and powers of observation are legendary, and the adventures of Sherlock Holmes is where it all began.“A scandal in Bohemia” was first published in the strand magazine in 1891, and since then, Doyle and his stories have collectively captured the world’s attention and entranced readers endlessly.Join Holmes on his escapades through nineteenth-century Victorian London with his closest friend and chronicler John Watson, and Marvel at the way he cracks seemingly unsolvable cases.The adventures of Sherlock Holmes is filled with intriguing mysteries including the thrilling “the five Orange Pips,” where a man is hounded to death by the mysterious K.K.K., the gruesome experience of “the engineer’s thumb,” and Doyle’s personal favorite, “the adventure of the Speckled band.”.