holmes, sherlock (fictional character)

Presents the first twelve Sherlock Holmes mystery stories ever published. Includes information on the author's life and times, and a glossary of terms.

Presents a series of stories featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes, including "A Study in Scarlet," "The Sign of Four," "Adventures of Sherlock Holmes," "Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes," and "The Hound of the Baskervilles.".

Mary Russell, wife of Sherlock Holmes, investigates the murder of their archeologist friend, Dorothy Ruskin, who had given them an inlaid box with a tattered roll of papyrus inside, supposedly written by Mary Magdalene.

A graphic novel adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes story in which the great detective and his sidekick Dr. Watson become caught up in a treasure hunt after agreeing to help a woman learn the identity of her secret admirer.

Doctor Watson has been arrested for murder and Sherlock Holmes has been unexpectedly called out of the country, leaving it up to the Baker Street Irregulars to prove John Watson innocent before he is sent to the gallows.

After her friend Virginia Beaconsfield introduces Mary Russell, Sherlock Holmes's apprentice, to Margery Childe, suffragette and a church leader at the New Temple of God, Mary learns that Virginia suffers a near-fatal accident and she and Holmes begin an immediate investigation.

As Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, travel to San Francisco to settle her family legal affairs, she begins to act irrationally and have haunting dreams. Her family memories of being in the 1906 earthquake resurface, and secrets of her family's past reveal several mysteries. Mary and Sherlock investigate her parent's marriage, a car accident, and numerous unexplained deaths in the family.

Mary Russell and her husband Sherlock Holmes safeguard a letter for an amateur archeologist, but when the archeologist dies in a mysterious accident, they soon find themselves on the trail of a clever murderer.

Contains four volumes of illustrated Sherlock Holmes stories in a box-like slipcase with a magnetic closure. Includes all four full-length novels and over forty short stories.

Offers young readers a look at four adventures of the famous English detective, Sherlock Holmes, from stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.