The Complete Sherlock Holmes  (English, Hardcover, Doyle Arthur Conan)

Join the genius super-sleuth Sherlock Holmes and his faithful companion Dr. John Watson as they solve mind-boggling crimes in this hardcover edition collecting the Complete Sherlock Holmes stories and novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Summary of the Book

When John Watson first encountered Sherlock Holmes, he wrote him off as an eccentric with above average skill in several fields. He thought he was a jack of all trades. However, he did not realize that Sherlock was easily the most brilliant detective anyone had ever seen. A nicotine-abusing drug addict, Sherlock is constantly neck-deep in the most confusing of crimes. Scotland Yard constantly runs to his side, asking him for assistance. However, Sherlock isn’t entirely infallible. He might just meet his match in the diabolical James Moriarty, a criminal mastermind who might be just as intelligent as Sherlock. In this gorgeous collection, readers are cast into the world of the world’s definitive consulting detective and all of his adventures which have redefined the crime fiction genre for all time.

About Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a Scottish writer and physician best known for his mystery novels and short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes. He is also famous his Professor Challenger series detailed in The Lost World, The Poison Belt and The Land of Mist.

Doyle studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He was knighted in 1902 by King Edward for his services as a volunteer doctor in the Langman Field Hospital at Bloemfontein between March and June 1900.

The stories of Sherlock Holmes have been adapted several times over the decades into films and TV series. The most recent adaptation is BBC’s Sherlock TV series starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman.