Since his first appearance in?Beetons Christmas Annual?in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyles Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in one eBook, Bantam Classics presents?all?fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyles classic heroa truly complete collection of Sherlock Holmess adventures in crime!

Volume I includes the early novel?A Study in Scarlet, which introduced the eccentric genius of Sherlock Holmes to the world. This baffl...ing murder mystery, with the cryptic word?Rache?written in blood, first brought Holmes together with Dr. John Watson. Next,?The Sign of Four?presents Holmess famous seven percent solution and the strange puzzle of Mary Morstan in the quintessential locked-room mystery. Also included are Holmess feats of extraordinary deception in such famous cases as the chilling The Adventure of the Speckled Band, the baffling riddle of The Musgrave Ritual, and the ingeniously plotted The Five Orange Pips.

Volume II begins with?The Hound of 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 Holmess feats of extraordinary detection in such famous cases as the thrilling The Adventure of the Red Circle, Holmess tragic and fortunately premature farewell in The Final Problem, and the twelve baffling adventures from?The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes.

Conan Doyles incomparable tales bring to life a Victorian England of horse-drawn cabs, fogs, and the famous lodgings at 221 B Baker Street, where for more than forty years Sherlock Holmes earned his undisputed reputation as the greatest fictional detective of all time.