Dominoes One: Sherlock Holmes. The Top-Secret Plans Conan Doyle Arthur Oxford University Press

Though endlessly reinterpreted, reinvented, and imitated, the Sherlock Holmes stories have never been surpassed. Sporting his signature billowing coat and pipe in hand, the genius investigator Holmes captivates readers with his alluring melancholy and superhuman intuition, while his partner, Dr. Watson, remains ever the perfect foil, a classic Victorian gentleman with brilliant intellect

Miss Mary Morstan has a strange story to tell • Since her father disappeared, she has received a large pearl through the post on the same day, every year, for six years. Who is sending them? And what about her father's paper with the words 'The Sign of Four' written on it? • Sherlock Holmes alone can solve these mysteries • Text adaptation by Jeremy Page

All four of Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary Sherlock Holmes novels, collected in a unique Graphic Deluxe edition with an introduction by Michael Dirda • In 1886, an unsuccessful ophthalmologist on the southern coast of England decided to try his hand at writing a detective story. Unlike his historical romances, which required the utmost care, this could be dashed off quickly. The first draft, featuring a Mr. Sherrinford Holmes, was a bit rough around the edges, but with a little revision, something astonishing emerged: Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, and A Study in Scarlet. As if with no warning, they sprung forth from their creator's head, fully-formed in a new style so well-defined it felt immediately like an established genre. Their partnership cemented within pages of the book's opening-the sum of their parts accomplishing far more than they could apart

Самый известный роман Артура Конан Дойла "Собака Баскервилей" возвещает о возвращении Шерлока Холмса после его смерти в "Последнем деле Холмса". Это шедевральное произведение криминального жанра мастерски сочетает неизвестность и страх с первобытным ужасом перед странным, незнакомым и невидимым • При загадочных обстоятельствах погибает сэр Чарльз Баскервиль. Старинная легенда рассказывает о проклятии рода Баскервилей - чудовищной собаке, которая губит мужчин этой семьи • Шерлок Холмс берется раскрыть убийство, и доктор Уотсон отправляется на девонширские болота, где находится родовое поместье Баскервилей, чтобы помочь знаменитому сыщику в расследовании и уберечь молодого наследника • Книга на английском языке • Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous novel, The Hound of the Baskervilles, heralds the return of Sherlock Holmes after his apparent death in The Final Problem