Sherlock Holmes

Description:

Sherlock Holmes is without doubt the world's most famous fictional detective. He made his first appearance in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887. Since then, aided and abetted by his loyal friend and colleague Dr John Watson, the accounts of his detective abilities have delighted generations of readers. This captivating collection of Conan Doyle's short stories contains some of Holmes' best-known cases, including 'A Scandal in Bohemia', 'The Red-Headed League', 'The Adventure of the Copper Beeches', 'The Musgrave Ritual', and 'His Last Bow'. Each one is guaranteed to entertain.

subjects: fiction,  English detective and mystery stories,  ancestors,  asphyxiation,  butlers,  cavaliers,  elms,  gemstones,  gold,  maids,  maps,  meres,  oaks,  riddles,  constables,  fingerprints,  handwriting,  Americans,  crime bosses,  frequency analysis,  hanging,  murder-suicide,  penal labour,  stick figures,  substitution ciphers,  weddings,  blackmail,  burglary,  detective fiction,  plumbers,  busts,  gangsters,  Italians,  Tahitian pearls,  brain fever,  darkrooms,  electric blue,  English Mastiffs,  governesses,  revolvers,  Children's stories,  English children's stories,  horse racing,  Mystery and detective stories,  opium,  race horses,  scalpels,  Children's fiction,  cabinet cards,  Honourable Society of the Inner Temple,  prima donnas,  smoke bombs,  banks,  Encyclopædia Britannica,  pawnbrokers,  police inspectors,  red hair,  carbuncles,  Christmas dinners,  commissionaires,  Private investigators,  Private investigators in fiction,  amorality,  Anglo-Saxons,  aristocracy,  Juvenile audience,  locked-room mysteries,  Drama,  English literature

People: Sherlock Holmes,  John H. Watson,  Reginald Musgrave,  Rachel Howells,  Richard Brunton,  King Charles I,  King Charles II,  John Hector McFarlane,  Jonas Oldacre,  Inspector G. Lestrade,  Mr. Cornelius,  James Moriarty,  Hilton Cubitt,  Elsie Patrick,  Abe Slaney,  Charles Augustus Milverton,  Eva Blackwell,  Napoleon Bonaparte,  Morse Hudson,  Dr. Barnicot,  Horace Harker,  Beppo,  Pietro Venucci,  House of Borgia,  Violet Hunter,  Jephro Rucastle,  Mr. Toller,  Mrs. Toller,  Alice Rucastle,  Fitzroy Simpson,  Silver Blaze,  Colonel Ross,  John Straker,  Ned Hunter,  William Derbyshire,  Silas Brown,  Inspector Gregory,  Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond von Ormstein,  Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meiningen,  Irene Adler,  Godfrey Norton,  Jabez Wilson,  Vincent Spaulding,  Duncan Ross,  Police Inspector Jones,  Mr. Merryweather,  John Clay,  Archie,  Baker Street Irregulars,  Countess of Morcar,  John Horner,  Peterson,  Henry Baker,  Breckinridge,  Mrs Oakshott,  Catherine Cusack,  James Ryder,  Mrs. Oakshott,  Stroke Moran,  Helen Stoner,  Grimesby Roylott

Places: Sussex,  Blackheath,  Lower Norwood,  Ridling Thorpe Manor,  Norfolk,  United States,  Chicago,  England,  Hampstead,  Scotland Yard,  London,  Chiswick,  Copper Beeches,  Hampshire,  Winchester,  Wessex,  Dartmoor,  King's Pyland,  Bohemia,  Scandinavia,  Warsaw,  221B Baker Street,  Church of St. Monica,  Edgware Road,  Charing Cross railway station,  Baker Street,  Alpha Inn,  British Museum,  Covent Garden,  Brixton,  Calcutta,  India,  Surrey

Times: 1888,  1890