Sherlock holmes

'am dining at goldini's restaurant, gloucester road, kensington. please come at once and join me there. bring with you a jemmy, a dark lantern, a chisel, and a revolver - s. h.' the game's afoot for the most famous amateur detective of all time in this collection of eight of sir arthur conan doyle's classic tales. 'the speckled band', a victorian melodrama in a country house, comes complete with murderous villain, murdered heroine, and a very unpleasant snake; 'silver blaze' tells of a missing race horse on dartmoor which turns out not to be missing at all, and a murder that never was. in 'the redheaded league' a pawnbroker answers an advertisement for a red-headed man and bizarrely finds himself copying out the encyclopedia britannica; in 'the bruce partington plans' holmes is skulking in the london underground with a dead body when his patriotic services are called upon to find some stolen state secrets in the run-up to world war i. sidney paget was the original illustrator and helped to form the image of sherlock holmes which exists to this day - in fact, it was he who created the famous deer-stalker!