About the Book

Arthur Conan Doyle’s immortal creation Holmes sets forth to solve some of the most intriguing cases of his career in this collection of six stories.What was the mysterious ‘speckled band’ that a woman referred to with her dying breath? What do the dancing men signify and why do they bring death in their wake? Is there really a league of red-headed men, or is it a conspiracy so audacious that only Holmes can sense it? Will Sherlock Holmes meet his end at the hands of the evil Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls?

The mysteries of Sherlock Holmes have held readers spellbound ever since they were first published. In 1927, the stories in this volume were chosen by the author himself as some of the best he had written. Introduced here by Ruskin Bond, The Very Best of Sherlock Holmes presents the great detective in all his brilliant glory for a new generation of readers.

AUTHOR: Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle was a British author, physician and spiritualist who created the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. Holmes featured in a number of novels and short stories, most of which have remained in print for well over a century. Arthur Conan Doyle’s best-known work includes novels: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Stark Munro Letters and The Hound of the Baskervilles; short-story collections: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Round the Red Lamp: Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life and Danger! and Other Stories and works of historical non-fiction: The Crime of the Congo and The Great Boer War.

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