The collection includes 37 short stories and novel reproduced in a facsimile of the original publication from The Strand, plus 356 original illustrations.

Contains eight mystery stories featuring detective Sherlock Holmes.

In the Napoleon of crime, Professor Moriarity plots with would-be blackmailers to have Holmes killed. And the normally love-proof Holmes falls for an exceptional woman. The play was co-authored by the American matinee idol William Gillette, who played the title sleuth. A smash hit from the beginning, the play remained in Gillette's repertoire until he retired more than thirty years after its premiere. What is the secret of the shocking death of poor...

The dramatic death of Sir Charles Baskerville brings Sherlock Holmes to the lonely, mysterious Devon moors to investigate the mystery.

When a Scotland Yard detective asks for assistance, Sherlock Holmes uses his powers of rational, reasoned observation and deduction to solve a murder case.