xv, 939 pp. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle considered his first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet, to be as good as I could make it, and I had high hopes: later, his hopes fulfilled, he wished Sherlock dead, but the public refused to let the great detective die. This volume presents 44 of the best Holmes mysteries, including The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Valley of Fear. Slightly off-mint.
