SHERLOCK HOLMES COLLECTION: Arcturus Decorative Classic

A thrilling casebook of villainous crimes, this very handsome collection brings together Arthur Conan Doyle's most celebrated novels and short stories, presented in a stunning gift edition with printed page edges themed with pipe-smoking consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, and his faithful companion Dr Watson, two of fiction's most intriguing figures. Facing down Victorian villains and elusive criminals with nothing more than his formidable powers of observation, Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes still has an unmatched ability to entertain. This volume brings together all four Sherlock Holmes novels - A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Valley of Fear - as well as all the short stories originally collected in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Gorgeous colour front cover of the sleuths under gaslight, inspired by Victorian-era bookbinding, clothbound in a beautiful dark green autumnal shade and gold-foil embossing, and the characters actually depicted in colour painting on the edges of eth very pages of eth book, top bottom and along the side. Night shopping Victorian street scene on endpapers, 15.3 x 24cm. 927 pages. New, full price by arrangement with the publisher Arcturus.