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Subject(s)

• Detective and mystery stories, English [Browse]
• Holmes, Sherlock—Fiction [Browse]
• Watson, John H. (Fictitious character)—Fiction [Browse]

Editor

• McCrea, Barry, 1974- [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Short stories [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• short stories [Browse]

Series

Oxford world's classics [More in this series]

Summary note

This selection of 12 of the best Sherlock Holmes stories is designed to give a full sense of their world, taking Holmes's career from its early days to its close. It includes the book-length 'The Sign of the Four' and notes by Barry McCrea that give a sense of the different currents running beneath the stories' surface.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Introduction
• Note on the text
• Select bibiography
• A chronology of Arthur Conan Doyle
• The sign of the four
• A scandal in Bohemia
• A case of identity
• The Red-Headed League
• The man with the twisted lip
• The blue carbuncle
• The speckled band
• The Musgrave ritual
• The Greek interpreter
• The dancing men
• The six Napoleons
• His last bow
• Explanatory notes.

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ISBN

• 9780199672066 ((pbk.))
• 0199672067 ((pbk.))

LCCN

2013948405

OCLC

869791797

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