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Share the classic novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in an illustrated chapter storybook made for young readers! Perfectly thrilling, beginner readers will find the irresistible mystery of Kid Classics Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles just the right amount of detective work! Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote this classic tale about Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick Watson more than one hundred years ago, and it's a story that you can't put down. When the Baskervilles are haunted by a giant, ghostly hound that glows eerily and howls outside their estate at night, no one can crack the case but Sherlock Holmes! Holmes and Watson track the fearsome hound through the Grimpen Mire and solve the mystery, along the way learning lessons about greed, truth, and illusion. With page after page of captivating illustrations, this magical hardcover will be the fought over favorite in your home and schoolroom! This just-for-kids retelling of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles: Is an abridged, child-friendly retelling of original novel Is a beautiful illustrated hardcover with illustrations in each chapter Is perfect for homeschooling, school reading challenges, and beginning readers

This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘A Study in Scarlet’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Doyle includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily. eBook features: * The complete unabridged text of ‘A Study in Scarlet’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Doyle’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the textPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles

The Sign of the Four (1890), also called The Sign of Four, is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote four novels and 56 stories starring the fictional detective. The story is set in 1888. The Sign of the Four has a complex plot involving service in East India Company, India, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts ("the Four" of the title) and two corrupt prison guards. It presents the detective's drug habit and humanizes him in a way that had not been done in the preceding novel, A Study in Scarlet (1887). It also introduces Doctor Watson's future wife, Mary Morstan. In 1888 a client, Mary Morstan, comes with two puzzles for Holmes. The first is the disappearance of her father, British Indian Army Captain Arthur Morstan, in December 1878. According to Mary, her father had telegraphed her upon his safe return from India and requested her to meet him at the Langham Hotel in London. When Mary arrived at the hotel, she was told her father had gone out the previous night and not returned. Despite all efforts, no trace has ever been found of him. Mary contacted her father's only friend who was in the same regiment and had since retired to England, one Major John Sholto, but he denied knowing her father had returned. The second puzzle is that she has received six pearls in the mail from an anonymous benefactor, one per year since 1882 after answering an anonymous newspaper query inquiring for her. With the last pearl she received a letter remarking that she has been a wronged woman and asking for a meeting. Holmes takes the case and soon discovers that Major Sholto had died in 1882 and that within a short span of time Mary began to receive the pearls, implying a connection. The only clue Mary can give Holmes is a map of a fortress found in her father's desk with the names of Jonathan Small, Mahomet Singh, Abdullah Khan and Dost Akbar.

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin. Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson investigate the case. This was the first appearance of Holmes since his apparent death in "The Final Problem", and the success of The Hound of the Baskervilles led to the character's eventual revival.

The best edition of The Adventure of the Speckled Band currently available for first-time readers. The unabridged story and original Sidney Paget sketches are supplemented with 18 new illustrations and a fully annotated (explained) text. This 125th Anniversary collector's volume is a great way to introduce young and old alike to the captivating world of Sherlock Holmes. All of the ingredients are here for a compelling tale ... a locked room mystery, damsel in distress and a gloomy, centuries-old mansion surrounded by danger. Can Holmes solve the case before it is too late?

" Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, first published late in 1893 with 1894 date.[1] It was the second collection featuring the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, following The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Like the first it was illustrated by Sidney Paget.The twelve stories were originally published in The Strand Magazine from December 1892 to December 1893 as The Adventures number 13 to 24. For instance, ""The Final Problem"" was published under the subheading ""XXIV.-The Adventure of the Final Problem.

A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. Written in 1886, the story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become among the most famous characters in literature. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes, an amateur detective, to his friend and chronicler Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the story's murder investigation as his "study in scarlet": "There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it." (A "study" is a preliminary drawing, sketch or painting done in preparation for a finished piece.) The story, and its main characters, attracted little public interest when it first appeared. Only 11 complete copies of the magazine in which the story first appeared, Beeton's Christmas Annual for 1887, are known to exist now and they have considerable value. Although Conan Doyle wrote 56 short stories featuring Holmes, A Study in Scarlet is one of only four full-length novels in the original canon. The novel was followed by The Sign of the Four, published in 1890. A Study in Scarletwas the first work of detective fiction to incorporate the magnifying glass as an investigative tool

A thrilling story begins with the murder of Sir Charles Baskerville, hunted down by the supernatural hound. 'The Hound Of The Baskervilles' has a theme which revolves around science Vs superstitions The next target of the hound, haunting the Grimpen Mire is Sir Henry Baskerville. The super sleuth Sherlock Holmes steps in to solve the secret of the legend and a maze of mysteries haunting the moor. Will Sherlock Holmes be able to solve the mystery surrounding the death of Sir Charles in time to stop the next murder? Join to explore the beautiful English countryside and to the gloomy moors with Sherlock Holmes to unravel one of his most famous mysteries.

This premium quality large print edition contains the complete and unabridged original classic version of The Hound of the Baskervilles, a full-length mystery novel featuring Arthur Conan Doyle''s "consulting detective", printed on heavy, bright white paper in a large 7.44"x9.69" format, with a fully laminated full-color cover featuring an original design. This volume has been freshly edited using clean, modern fonts by human editors, not machine-scanned, contains the complete original text and corrects a number of errors introduced in the many editions published over the years. Also included are a biographical sketch of the author and a detailed bibliography of his work. Perhaps the most popular of all the Sherlock Holmes stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles was originally published as a serial in The Strand magazine between August 1901 and April 1902. The first appearance of Holmes since his "death" in "The Final Problem," it was immediately successful, meeting the public demand for the return of Sherlock Holmes and permanently securing the future popularity of the fictional detective. The story opens with Dr. James Mortimer traveling to London to ask Sherlock Holmes for help. Sir Charles Baskerville has been found dead on the grounds of Baskerville Hall, victim of an apparent heart attack. But Mortimer fears for the safety of Henry Baskerville, a nephew coming from Canada to claim his inheritance. Explaining that the Baskervilles are subject to a curse dating back to the 17th century, when a giant spectral hound tore out wicked Hugo Baskerville''s throat and vanished into the night, Mortimer discloses that Sir Charles died with his face contorted in a ghastly expression of terror, and Mortimer saw the footprints of a "gigantic hound" near the body. A series of mysterious events in London seems to indicate that Henry is in real danger, persuading Holmes to take up the case, a complex mystery that leads from the streets of London to the barren moors of Devon and the deadly bogs of the "Grimpen Mire," with a scattering of clues and seemingly unrelated events along the way to make this classic tale a thoroughly enjoyable and well-plotted mystery story, all the more so because of the presence of Holmes and Watson. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) is known the world over as the creator of the famous consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes, but was a prolific writer who produced a large body of work ranging from non-fiction and full-length novels to a wide variety of short stories. Doyle''s first major success as a writer came with the debut of Sherlock Holmes in the 1887 publication of "A Study in Scarlet". Holmes was a popular sensation, and more stories followed. By 1891, Sherlock Holmes was enough to provide Doyle a living, but Doyle came to resent Holmes, who kept him from what he considered "more important" work. In 1893 he "killed" Holmes, as the detective and his archenemy, Professor Moriarty, plunged to their deaths at Reichenbach Falls in "The Final Problem". It was no mere publicity stunt. Doyle considered himself finished with Mr. Sherlock Holmes. The public uproar in reaction to Holmes'' "death" shocked Doyle, with even his own mother complaining, and as the clamor continued he was forced to bring the detective back in "The Hound of the Baskervilles", published, to a vast public sigh of relief, in 1901. Ironically, the character Doyle resented as a "distraction" from serious work would ultimately appear in fifty-six short stories and four novels, together with countless adaptations to films, television, cartoons, and modern pastiches by an assortment of authors. Other Sherlock Holmes classics available from Apex Publications in large print editions are The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Sign of the Four, A Study in Scarlet, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, and His Last Bow.

Arthur Conan Doyle published The Valley of Fear in serial form in Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915. A book form followed the British serialization in 1915. The manuscript, 176 folio pages with Doyle's deletions and revisions, shows that Watson was not intended to be the original narrator. It is the only Holmes tale to deal directly with Irish issues.

Shortly after my marriage I had bought a connection in the Paddington district. Old Mr. Farquhar, from whom I purchased it, had at one time an excellent general practice; but his age, and an affliction of the nature of St. Vitus's dance from which he suffered, had very much thinned it. The public not unnaturally goes on the principle that he who would heal others must himself be whole, and looks askance at the curative powers of the man whose own case is beyond the reach of his drugs. Thus as my predecessor weakened his practice declined, until when I purchased it from him it had sunk from twelve hundred to little more than three hundred a year. I had confidence, however, in my own youth and energy, and was convinced that in a very few years the concern would be as flourishing as ever. For three months after taking over the practice I was kept very closely at work, and saw little of my friend Sherlock Holmes, for I was too busy to visit Baker Street, and he seldom went anywhere himself save upon professional business. I was surprised, therefore, when, one morning in June, as I sat reading the British Medical Journal after breakfast, I heard a ring at the bell, followed by the high, somewhat strident tones of my old companion's voice. "Ah, my dear Watson," said he, striding into the room, "I am very delighted to see you! I trust that Mrs. Watson has entirely recovered from all the little excitements connected with our adventure of the Sign of Four."

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin. Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson investigate the case. This was the first appearance of Holmes since his apparent death in "The Final Problem," and the success of The Hound of the Baskervilles led to the character's eventual revival. In 2003, the book was listed as number 128 of 200 on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novel." In 1999, it was listed as the top Holmes novel, with a perfect rating from Sherlockian scholars of 100.

Illustrated Edition: 20 atmospheric, high-resolution illustrations that bring the moor to life Includes Bonus Material: A crisp summary, a clear characters list, and a short author biography of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Hound of the Baskervilles — Illustrated Classic for Modern Readers Fog drifts over the Devonshire moor. A terrified cry splits the night. By dawn, Sir Charles Baskerville is dead—and the locals whisper that the family curse has claimed another victim. Sherlock Holmes, the master of reason, and Dr. Watson, his stalwart companion, follow a trail of clues through treacherous bogs, lonely tors, and a mansion thick with secrets. Is the monstrous hound a creature of legend—or the mask for a very human evil? This reader-friendly edition enhances the Gothic suspense and razor-sharp deduction that made the novel immortal. The carefully placed illustrations amplify dread and drama without spoiling the mystery, while the added features help you dive in fast and savor every twist. Why you’ll love this edition Page-turning atmosphere: The moor becomes a character—eerie lights, distant howls, and footprints that shouldn’t exist. Peak Holmes & Watson: Strategy, observation, and a bravura reveal that rewards attentive readers. Perfect for book clubs & classrooms: Bonus materials make discussion effortless and engaging. Ideal gift edition: Elegant layout paired with striking art—classic literature that looks as good as it reads. What’s inside The complete, unabridged text of The Hound of the Baskervilles (public domain) 20 mood-rich illustrations curated to match key scenes A spoiler-light summary for quick recall A concise characters list for easy reference A brief author biography highlighting Conan Doyle’s life and legacy Step onto the moor—where superstition stalks the night and only reason can lift the fog. This illustrated edition lets you experience Doyle’s masterpiece with fresh eyes and a racing pulse.

Brigadier Gerard is the hero of a series of historical short stories by the British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. The hero, Etienne Gerard, is a Hussar officer in the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars. Gerard's most notable attribute is his vanity - he is utterly convinced that he is the bravest soldier, greatest swordsman, most accomplished horseman and most gallant lover in all France. Gerard is not entirely wrong, since he displays notable bravery on many occasions, but his self-satisfaction undercuts this quite often. Obsessed with honour and glory, he is always ready with a stirring speech or a gallant remark to a lady. Conan Doyle, in making his hero a vain, and often rather uncomprehending, Frenchman, was able to satirise both the stereotypical English view of the French and - by presenting them from Gerard's baffled point of view - English manners and attitudes. This classic title has been published by RADLEY BOOKS. Each RADLEY CLASSIC is a meticulously restored, luxurious and faithful reproduction of a classic book; produced with elegant text layout, clarity of presentation, and stylistic features that make reading a true pleasure. Special attention is given to legible fonts and adequate letter sizing, correct line length for readability, generous margins and triple lead (lavish line separation); plus we do not allow any mistakes/changes/additions to creep into the author's words.Visit RADLEY BOOKS at www.radleybooks.com (or search RADLEY CLASSIC on Amazon) to see more classic book titles in this series. Includes a biography of the author.

Why buy our paperbacks? Standard Font size of 10 for all books High Quality Paper Fulfilled by Amazon Expedited shipping 30 Days Money Back Guarantee BEWARE of Low-quality sellers Don't buy cheap paperbacks just to save a few dollars. Most of them use low-quality papers & binding. Their pages fall off easily. Some of them even use very small font size of 6 or less to increase their profit margin. It makes their books completely unreadable. How is this book unique? Unabridged (100% Original content) Formatted for e-reader Font adjustments & biography included Illustrated About The Valley of Fear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle From the annals of Dr Watson comes this dark tale of Sherlock Holmes' early encounter with Professor Moriarty. When Holmes and Watson receive a cipher from one of Moriarty's henchmen warning of dark doings at a manor house, they find themselves on the trail of a murderer. Almost immediately, they are on their way to Sussex where they discover a corpse with its head blown to pieces. But all is not as it seems. For the origins of this case lie in America, and involve a Pinkerton's man and the doings of a terrible and secretive lodge ...

When Dr John Watson takes rooms in Baker Street with amateur detective Sherlock Holmes, he has no idea that he is about to enter a shadowy world of criminality and violence.

"The Adventure of the Devil's Foot" is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. It is one of eight stories in the cycle collected as His Last Bow.Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot" ninth in his list of his twelve favorite Holmes stories.