The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

In The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes you can read the final twelve stories that Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about his brilliant detective. It is perhaps the most unusual and certainly the darkest collection that he penned. Treachery, mutilation, the terrible consequences Of infidelity are just some of the themes explored in this collection, along with atmospheric touches of the gothic involving g blood• sucking vampire, crypts at midnight and strange bones in a furnace. nese challenging and often bizarre tales reflect the mood of the disillusioned post-war world of the 1920s when they were written. Amid this grey miasma of crime stands the shining figure of Sherlock Holmes who is there to unravel even the most baffling mystery,