The Case-Book Of Sherlock Holmes Av Arthur Conan Doyle

<p>Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector''s Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector''s Library are books to love and treasure. <br><br><i>The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes</i> contains Conan Doyle''s last twelve stories about his great fictional detective. Compared with earlier collections these tales are darker, exploring such themes as treachery, mutilation and the terrible consequences of infidelity, and containing such gothic touches as a blood-sucking vampire and crypts at midnight. <br><br>With an Afterword by David Stuart Davies, a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund, and an authority on Sherlock Holmes. He has written the Afterwords for all the Macmillan Collector''s Library Holmes volumes.<br><br>Stories in this edition:<br>The Adventure of the Illustrious Client<br>The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier<br>The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone<br>The Adventure of the Three Gables<br>The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire<br>The Adventure of the Three Garridebs<br>The Problem of Thor Bridge<br>The Adventure of the Creeping Man<br>The Adventure of the Lion''s Mane<br>The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger<br>The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place<br>The Adventure of the Retired Colourman</p>