From the publisher
The Best of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twenty of the very best tales from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fifty-six short stories featuring the arch-sleuth. Basing his selection around the core list of the author's own twelve personal favourites, David Stuart Davies has added a further eight sparkling stories to Conan Doyle's "Baker Street Dozen", creating a unique volume which distills the pure essence of the world's most famous detective.

Within these pages the reader will encounter the greatest collection of villains and the weirdest and most puzzling mysteries ever seen in print. And there at the centre, in a London swathed in eddies of fog and illuminated by gaslight, is to be found the remarkable character of Sherlock Holmes and his staunch companion and chronicler, Doctor John H. Watson. Few will be able to resist this invitation to step aboard the waiting hansom cab and rattle off along cobbled streets into unimagined dangers and intrigues.

Contents:

• A Scandal in Bohemia
• The Red-Headed League
• The Five Orange Pips
• The Man with the Twisted Lip
• The Blue Carbuncle
• The Speckled Band
• The Copper Beeches
• Silver Blaze
• The Musgrave Ritual
• The Reigate Squires
• The Greek Interpreter
• The Final Problem
• The Empty House
• The Dancing Men
• The Solitary Cyclist
• The Priory School
• Charles Augustus Milverton
• The Second Stain
• The Devil's Foot
• The Illustrious Client