The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes

Late in his career Sherlock Holmes is older, drier and no less exacting, and these are the final cases Arthur Conan Doyle wrote for him. Dr Watson narrates most of the investigations, keeping the familiar warmth in stories that range across disappearances, blackmail, disguise and crimes with unusually strange surfaces. The Victorian and Edwardian settings supply the fog, the country houses and the railway timetables, while the method stays what it always was: observation first, conclusion second. Because each case is self-contained, the collection suits readers new to Holmes as comfortably as those working through the canon in order. Quick orientation: • Gathers the last sequence of Holmes stories written by Conan Doyle • Self-contained cases, readable in any order • Narrated largely by Dr Watson in the familiar style • A late-period entry in one of detective fiction's founding series For classic mystery readers and anyone completing a Holmes collection, offered by Boipoka.