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040			_cLCIC Library
082			_aF D77
100			_aArthur Conan Doyle _eAuthor
245			_aSherlock Holmes : _bthe complete novels and stories / _cArthur Conan Doyle
260			_aNew York: _bBantam, _cc2003.
300			_axvii, 1059 pages : illustrations ; 18cm
490			_aBantam classics: Sherlock Holmes _vVol. 1
500			_a"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
520			_aSince 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.
650			_aDetective and mystery fiction
650			_aEngland London
650			_aFictional Work
650			_aHolmes, Sherlock
650			_aMystery fiction
650			_aRomans
700			_aLoren D. Estleman _eIntroduction
700			_aAlvin Langdon Coburn
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