Containing some of Sherlock Holmes's most famous cases, in which his eagle eye and brilliant brain are stretched to their limits.
Amid the foggy streets of sinister London and the even more sinister smiling countryside, Holmes and Watson once more solve the unsolvable. In 'The Speckled Band', 'The Scandal in Bohemia', 'The Engineer's Thumb' and nine other intriguing stories, the great mastermind of detection grapples with the very extremes of treachery, duplicity and murderous evil.