Holmes, with trusty Watson by his side, is equal to these and the other challenges in this splendid collection. In the last story, there is the climactic battle between Holmes and his arch enemy, 'the Napoleon of Crime' Professor Moriarty. There is, for example, the man who is frightened for his life because of the arrival of an envelope containing five orange pips there is the terrified woman who is aware that her life is in danger and cannot explain the whistling sounds she hears in the night and there is the riddle of the missing butler and the theft of an ancient treasure. In his consulting room at 221B Baker Street, the master sleuth receives a stream of clients all presenting him with baffling and bizarre mysteries to unravel. In these twenty three tales, collected here in one volume, you have some of the best detective yarns ever penned. it is my business to know what other people don't know." 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' first introduced Arthur Conan Doyle's brilliant detective the readers of The Strand Magazine. Julian Wolfreys "My name is Sherlock Holmes.
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