Sherlock Holmes

<p><i>&#145;Am dining at Goldini&#146;s Restaurant Gloucester Road Kensington. Please come at once and join me there. Bring with you a jemmy a dark lantern a chisel and a revolver &#150; S. H.&#146;</i> <br><br><b>The game's afoot for the most famous amateur detective of all time in this collection of eight of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic tales.</b><br><br>&#145;<i>The Speckled Band&#146;</i> a Victorian melodrama in a country house comes complete with murderous villain murdered heroine and a very unpleasant snake; &#145;<i>Silver Blaze</i>&#146; tells of a missing race horse on Dartmoor which turns out not to be missing at all and a murder that never was. In &#145;<i>The Redheaded League&#146;</i> a pawnbroker answers an advertisement for a red-headed man and bizarrely finds himself copying out the Encyclopedia Britannica; in &#145;<i>The Bruce Partington Plans&#146;</i> Holmes is skulking in the London Underground with a dead body when his patriotic services are called upon to find some stolen state secrets in the run-up to World War I. <br><br><b>Sidney Paget</b> was the original illustrator and helped to form the image of Sherlock Holmes which exists to this day - in fact it was he who created the famous deer-stalker!</p>