The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Illustrated)

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle,
 first published on 14 October 1892. It contains the earliest short stories featuring the consulting
 detective Sherlock Holmes, which had been published in twelve monthly issues of The Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June 1892. The stories are collected in the same sequence, which is not supported by any fictional chronology. The only characters common to all twelve are Holmes and Dr. Watson and all are related in first-person narrative from Watson's point of view.
 
 Chapters
 I. A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA
 II. THE REDHEADED LEAGUE
 III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
 IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
 V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
 VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
 VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE
 VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
 IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER'S THUMB
 X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR
 XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET
 XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES
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Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ DL (22 May 1859 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones in the field of crime fiction.

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