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The Hound of the Baskervilles and the Valley of Fear

.0000000000The Hound of the Baskervilles is one of Doyle's best-known Holmes novels, frequently adapted for film and television, which is not surprising given the highly dramatic scenes of mist-wrapped moors echoing to the horrific howls of a supernatural hound. Is this a genuinely devilish apparition or is there a cunning murderer at work? Only Sherlock Holmes can solve the mystery. This volume also contains The Valley of Fear, a dark, powerful tale in which Holmes confronts the evil Professor Moriarty once more. 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 Collector's Library Holmes volumes.

The steam ploughs had, however, kept the railroad open, and the evening train
which connects the long line of coalmining and iron-working settlements was
slowly groaning its way up the steep gradients which lead from Stagville on the
plain to Vermissa, the central township which lies at the head of Vermissa Valley.
From this point the track sweeps downward to Bartons Crossing, Helmdale, and
the purely agricultural county of Merton. It was a single track railroad, but at every
siding ...

Sherlock Holmes

The Game's Afoot

Once more, the game's afoot as Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street returns in twenty new adventures specially commissioned for Wordsworth's Mystery & Supernatural series. The celebrated detective, along with his friend and biographer, Dr Watson, investigate a variety of baffling mysteries that will delight fans of the famous sleuth.Striding through the foggy gas lit streets of London, Holmes tackles such cases as 'The Puzzle of the Green Skull', 'The Secret of the Brown Box', the conundrum of 'The Dragon of Lea Lane', as well as coming face to face once again with 'The Sussex Vampire'.We also learn what really happened at the Reichenbach Falls when Holmes had his fateful encounter with Professor Moriarty. David Stuart Davies, Denis O. Smith, Mark Valentine, Matthew Booth, M.J. Elliott and the other talented writers who have contributed to this collection have followed closely in the footsteps of Arthur Conan Doyle in creating a wonderful feast of Sherlockian entertainment.

The Adventure of the Haunted Showman CHRISTOPHER SEQUEIRA When I
look back at the enquiries my friend, Mr Sherlock Holmes, was asked to make in
the year 1897, I recall his complaint that European crime had become
unremarkable. Holmes claimed that villainy had largely slipped back into a
catalogue of brutal assaults and straightforward (if skilful) burglaries. He believed
the glory days of criminology had ended with the removal of Moriarty and Moran,
and the more recent ...