The Hound of the Baskervilles & The Valley of Fear

Supernatural hounds, a family curse, a mysterious cipher and the return of a deadly enemy . . . Sherlock Holmes will have to utilize every skill he has to solve the two classic mysteries collected here. The Hound of the Baskervilles sees Holmes and Dr Watson travel to the misty wilds of Dartmoor to confront a devilish apparition, while in The Valley of Fear the pair investigate a gruesome murder that may be the work of the dastardly Professor Moriarty himself. In this Macmillan Collector's Library edition, Sherlock scholar David Stuart Davies provides both an illuminating afterword and a fascinating chronology of the Sherlock Holmes stories. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

He distrusted his wife ever since she had refused to help him in laying a trap for
the old man, and he dared not leave her long out of his sight for fear he should
lose his influence over her. It was for this reason that he took her to London with
him. They lodged, I find, at the Mexborough Private Hotel, in Craven Street, which
was actually one of those called upon by my agent in search of evidence. Here
he kept his wife imprisoned in her room while he, disguised in a beard, followed
Dr ...