In glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied at the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace.

So writes Dr. Watson, sidekick, and partner-in-crime-solving to the great detective, Sherlock
Holmes, in one of the ten classic tales of mystery and detection collected in this volume.
Included are several stories that Holmes’s creator, Arthur Conan Doyle, himself selected as
the intrepid pair’s greatest adventures, among them
A Scandal in Bohemia
,
The Speckled
Band
,
The Red-Headed League
, and
The Final Problem,
in which Doyle famously ‘killed off
his’ creation. The book also includes the complete short novel
The Hound of the Baskervilles.