Sherlock Holmes : the complete novels and stories / Arthur Conan Doyle

"Cover photograph courtesy of Bettmann Archives"--T.p. verso (v. 1)
"Cover photograph by Alvin Langdon Coburn ..."--T.p. verso (v. 2)
"Bantam Classic reissue / September 2003"--Title page verso
Illustrated paper wrappers with the reproduction of a sepia-coloured photograph of a London scene, circa 1900, on upper cover (v. 1) and of a hansom cab and driver (v. 2); brief biographical note on the author in each volume (p. [i]) with list of works in the Bantam classics series on inside front cover; t.p. lettered in black with publisher's device, a bantam rooster, at base of t.p. in black and at top of spine in white; covers and spine lettered in white or brown; list of contents (v. 1: p. v-vi; v.2: p. v); introduction (in both volumes) has title "On the significance of Boswells"; publisher's advertisements at end of each volume

Since his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyle’s classic hero--a truly complete collection of Sherlock Holmes’s 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 baffling murder mystery, with the cryptic word Rache written in blood, first brought Holmes together with Dr. John Watson. Next, The Sign of Four presents Holmes’s famous “seven percent solution” and the strange puzzle of Mary Morstan in the quintessential locked-room mystery.

Also included are Holmes’s feats of extraordinary detection 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,” tales that bring to life a Victorian England of horse-drawn cabs, fogs, and the famous lodgings at 221B Baker Street, where Sherlock Holmes earned his undisputed reputation as the greatest fictional detective of all time.