The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

This second set of adventure tales featuring the worlds first consulting detective gathers in one volume eleven stories originally published individually in Londons Strand Magazine and first reprinted in book form in 1894. Notable for an instance in which Holmess deductions turn out to be wrong the first appearance of the detectives brother Mycroft and Watsons report of Holmess death at the hands of Professor Moriarty the stories here include: . Silver Blaze . The Yellow Face . The Stock-brokers Clerk . The Gloria Scott . The Musgrave Ritual . The Reigate Puzzle . The Crooked Man . The Resident Patient . The Greek Interpreter . The Naval Treaty . The Final Problem: Scottish surgeon and political activist SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (1859-1930) turned his passions into stories and novels producing fiction and nonfiction works sometimes controversial (The Great Boer War 1900) sometimes fanciful (The Coming of the Fairies 1922) and sometimes legendary (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 1892).