Publisher's Synopsis
Join the most famous English private detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr Watson, when he solves mysteries with his skill of logic reasoning and the Holmesian deduction: Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. [...] It is simplicity itself ... my eyes tell me that on the inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously, they have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. Hence, you see my double deduction that you had been out in vile weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting specimen of the London slavey. This anthology contains the most famous adventures of Sherlock Holmes for you to discover: "A Scandal In Bohemia," "The Red-Headed League," "A Case Of Identity," "The Boscombe Valley Mystery," "The Five Orange Pips," "The Man With The Twisted Lip," "The Adventure Of The Blue Carbuncle," "The Adventure Of The Speckled Band," "The Adventure Of The Engineer