The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: with 13 original Sidney Paget illustrations

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes gathers together the first twelve short stories of Sir Arthur Conan-Doyles famous private investigator all of which appeared in The Strand magazine following the success of two earlier Holmes novels A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four. With the Adventures Holmes persona of infallible detective slips somewhat and Conan-Doyle occasionally allows the villain to escape or fail to get his just desserts. In the first encounter A Scandal in Bohemia the arch-sleuth is even bested by a woman - a shocking put-down for any self-respecting Victorian male and doubly so for Holmes! With 13 of Sidney Pagets original illustrations and written by a master of his art these are tales you will come back to again and again.