"A nail-biting mystery is for all to enjoy in this classic tale from the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The ever faithful companion, Watson, tells of his travels with Holmes to the Boscombe Valley to investigate the murder of a local farmer. The victim's son has been accused of this terrible crime but his behavior leads Holmes to suspect there is more to this case than the local authorities have been able to determine. Holmes investigation broadens...

What made Sherlock Holmes a household name and cultural icon? This very first collection of stories featuring the astute sleuth and his loyal assistant, Dr. Watson. In these twelve ingenious mysteries, Holmes is embroiled in betrayal, abduction, thievery, deception, and murder. Relying on logic, driven by instinct, and employing his uncanny powers of observation, Holmes cracks the cases that elude Scotland Yard. For him, it’s rather elementary.

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Arthur Conan Doyle delivers crime mysteries of the most thrilling kind as Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick Dr. Watson look for suspects in three stories.

Empty house: It is three years later. Did Sherlock Holmes plunge to his death at the Reichenbach Falls fighting with the fiendish Professor Moriarty? Watson is faced with an unsolved murder, and is lost without the talents of his old partner to help him; until he spots a mysterious visitor in court, listening to testimony about the murdered man. Abbey grange: Who murdered the last of the Brackenstall line, Sir Eustace Brackenstall? Sherlock Holmes...

Internationally bestselling author Lyndsay Faye was introduced to the Sherlock Holmes mysteries when she was ten years old and her dad suggested she read Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short story "The Adventure of the Speckled Band." She immediately became enamored with tales of Holmes and his esteemed biographer Dr. John Watson, and later, began spinning these quintessential characters into her own works of fiction--from her acclaimed debut novel, Dust...