The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Collectible Editions) by Arthur Conan Doyle

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Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective in fiction, a crime-solver gifted with powers of observation that allow him to see clues that ordinary detectives easily overlook. For more than a century, his adventures have thrilled generations of readers with crimes that are seemingly insoluble until the great detective steps in and applies his skills of deductive reasoning. This volume collects seven of Holmes's most challenging cases, including "A Scandal in Bohemia," "The Red-Headed League," "The Speckled Band," "The Five Orange Pips," "The Blue Carbuncle" and "The Beryl Coronet." It also features the full-length novel The Hound of the Baskervilles, about a legendary ghostly hound that has haunted generations of a noble family living in Baskerville Manor. All of the stories feature art by Sidney Paget, who illustrated the Sherlock Holmes stories that appeared originally in The Strand. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is one of Barnes & Noble's Collectible Editions classics for children. It features classic illustrations, an elegant bonded-leather binding, distinctive gilt edging and a ribbon bookmark. Decorative, durable and collectible, these books offer hours of pleasure to readers young and old and are an indispensable cornerstone for any home library.

  • Product Features

    • Author - Arthur Conan Doyle
    • Publisher - Barnes & Noble
    • Publication date - 04-04-2016
    • Page count - 424
    • Hardcover
    • Age range - 10-15 years
    • Leather Editions
    • Dimensions - 6.4 H x 8.3 W x 1.1 D
    • ISBN-13 - 9781435162051

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1 year ago
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Xmas gift

3 years ago
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My rating of the Adventures Sherlock Holmes

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was written by A. Conan Doyle, and was published by George Newnes on October 14, 1892. It has 254 pages and is a detective fiction that is made up of short stories. This book is told from Dr. Watson's point of view and has some exciting mysteries. The book Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is made up of eight different mysteries. Most of the time the main characters, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are in Sherlock’s house listening to Sherlock’s clients tell their stories of what happened to them. After they tell him their stories he goes off and investigates them. As you read this book you are reading through Dr. Watson’s point of view. Dr. Watson is Sherlock’s best friend and accompanies Sherlock on all of his adventures. The mysteries that you would read are, :The Red-Headed League, The Boscombe Valley Mystery, The Five Orange Pips, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb, The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor, The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet, and The Adventure of the Copper Beeches. When Conan Doyle wrote this book he wanted it to be entertaining. In my opinion most of this book was exciting and entertaining, but some of the adventures were boring. For example, The Boscombe Valley Mystery and The Five Orange Pip mystery were entertaining, but The Red-Headed League mystery and The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle were very boring. In my opinion, the author of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle did meet his goal of making an entertaining book. I believe this because he wrote some very exciting mysteries. For example, in the The Five Orange Pip mystery anyone that received orange pips or orange seeds died not long after. The writing is not a hard read most of the time, but there are parts that are harder to understand. Parts of the story would be harder to understand because of the vocabulary. Two examples of words that Conan Doyle used that people don’t usually know are referred and hence. Referred means, “mention or allude to.” Hence means, “as a consequence; for this reason.” This book was interesting and had lots of great mysteries. In conclusion, this book is an exciting book full of fun mysteries. I would recommend this book to eighth grade and up. If you like reading mysteries you should definitely read this book.

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5 years ago
from Dallas, TX

Just what you need

I bought this book for a personal edition to my library - not disappointed. I was going to take a detective fiction class, and thought I might need it, and I did. He requested 4/7 stories that are in this book. I am thoroughly glad I got it. It's hardcover, with a bookmark, and has the Paget pictures in the book. Of course it's not all of the stories, but what you get is great.

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