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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes are overshadowed by the event with which they close - the meeting of the great detective and Moriarty, the Napoleon of Crime. When "The Final Problem" was first published, the struggle between Holmes and his arch nemesis, seemingly to the death, left many readers desolate at the loss of Holmes, but it also led to his immortality as a literary figure.

A tired and battle scarred surgeon returns to London after being wounded in the third Afghan war. After his money starts to run low, a chance encounter leads him to take a flat with an eccentric man at 221B Baker Street. Thus begins the famous crime-solving partnership of the Holmes and Watson duo.

The Sign of Four is the second story by Conan Doyle about the exploits of Sherlock Holmes. From the moment Mary Morstan tells Holmes about the mysterious disappearance of her father and the yearly gift of a pearl from an unknown benefactor, Holmes and his companion Watson are involved in an exotic tale of stolen treasure, secret oaths and murder, culminating in a breath-taking chase down the Thames. Holmes is on top form, and Watson falls in love.

Maurice Leblanc, a writer of detective fiction during the same period as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, created Arsene Lupin, a sort of French Robin Hood. An inventive genius, a master of disguise, and an accomplished actor, Lupin operates in the choice chateaux and salons. He scorns sham and with great disdain leaves his card in a baron's residence. The card reads, "Arsene Lupin, gentleman-burglar, will return when the furniture is genuine."

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate the legend of a supernatural hound, a beast that may be stalking a young heir on the fog-shrouded moorland that makes up his estate. The best of the Holmes novels!

"The Red-Headed League" was the second of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories to be published in The Strand magazine. Doyle ranked "The Red-Headed League" second in his list of his 12 favorite Holmes stories. It was first published in August of 1891 and was later the first of the stories collected in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes in 1892.

Lord Robert St. Simon's new American bride, Hatty Doran, has disappeared almost immediately after the wedding. The servants had prevented an old love interest of his from forcing her way into the wedding breakfast, and Hatty had been seen in whispered conversation with her maid. Inspector Lestrade arrives with the news that Hatty's wedding dress and ring have been found floating in the Serpentine.

An engineer, Victor Hatherly, attends Dr. Watson's Surgery after his thumb is chopped off, and recounts his tale to Watson and Holmes. Hatherly had been hired for 50 guineas to repair a machine he was told compressed Fuller's earth into bricks. Hatherly was told to keep the job confidential, and was transported to the job in a carriage with frosted glass, to keep the location secret. He was shown the press, but on closer inspection discovered a "rust of metallic deposit" on the press, and he suspected it was not being used for compressing earth.

'The Adventure of the Copper Beeches' is one of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock and Watson endeavour to solve one of their strangest cases yet. Violet Hunter has accepted a job as governess, with a remarkable salary, but is most concerned about the peculiar conditions to which she must agree....

'The Man with the Twisted Lip' is one of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Dr Watson is called upon by a friend of his wife to assist in the retrieval of her husband from an opium den. When he arrives at the den, he discovers Holmes disguised as an old man. The mystery deepens when the husband is nowhere to be found, and his coat - heavy with coins - is found in the river Thames beside the building.

'The Five Orange Pips' is one of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. It details a peculiar case that revolves around the deaths of several individuals who had received letters containing orange pips prior to their demise.

'The Boscombe Valley Mystery' is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes asks Watson to accompany him to Boscombe Valley to assist in a peculiar case revolving around the death of Mr Charles McCarthy.

'A Case of Identity' is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes is hired by Miss Mary Sutherland, a wealthy lady who is desperate to solve the mystery behind the disappearance of her fiancé, Mr. Hosmer Angel.

'The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual' is one of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. In this frame tale, Holmes recounts the events of a particular case he worked on in relation to a university acquantance, whose domestic staff vanished after secretly reading a family document. The document was in fact a riddle, which - in order to understand the peculiarities of the case - Holmes must solve.

'The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor' is one of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes takes on a peculiar case which entails the disappearance of Lord St. Simon's bride on the day of their marriage.

'The Adventure of the Speckled Band' is one of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes and Watson encounter a young woman who feels mortally threatened by her stepfather. She tells of her twin sister's mysterious and untimely death two years earlier - and her dying words, "The speckled band!" What does it all mean? Holmes agrees to take the case.

'The Adventure of the Final Problem' is one of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes goes head to head with a criminal mastermind whom he regards as his only intellectual equal.

'The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb' is one of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. In this story, Dr Watson stumbles across a peculiar case, described to him by a patient who had his thumb severed by a cleaver the night before. Watson brings the story to the attention of Holmes, who agrees to get to the bottom of it.

In this adventure, Holmes confronts the criminal mastermind, Professor Moriarty. This short story was considered by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as one of the best Sherlock Holmes stories. "It is with a heavy heart that I take up my pen to write these the last words in which I shall ever record the singular gifts by which my friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes was distinguished."