What is the secret of a goose that swallowed a priceless blue gem? How is a woman killed when she is alone in a locked room? Why does a mysterious club only include people with red hair? These puzzles are all solved by the greatest detective the world has ever known in Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes. Adapted from three of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic tales of suspense ( The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, The Adventure of the Speckled Band, and The Red Headed League) these thrilling mysteries are made accessible to young readers in this fabulous easy to read edition.

A collection of thirty-three stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, representing the work of over fifty years and showing a wide range of subject matter.

Sherlock has retired. Now living in Sussex, he’s enjoying a pleasant walk along the beach when he runs into a friend, Harold Stackhurst, headmaster at The Gables. The two acquaintances have just started chatting when they’re interrupted by one of the teachers at Stackhurst’s school, Fitzroy McPherson. The man appears to be in a great deal of pain and only manages to mutter something about a lion’s mane before collapsing, dead. He has strange wounds on his back. Then comes another of the teachers, Ian Murdoch, who claims to have no idea what happened, having just arrived himself. But there is no one else close by. "The Adventure of the Lion’s Mane" is part of "The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes". Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was born in Scotland and studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh. After his studies, he worked as a ship’s surgeon on various boats. During the Second Boer War, he was an army doctor in South Africa. When he came back to the United Kingdom, he opened his own practice and started writing crime books. He is best known for his thrilling stories about the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. He published four novels and more than 50 short-stories starring the detective and Dr Watson, and they play an important role in the history of crime fiction. Other than the Sherlock Holmes series, Doyle wrote around thirty more books, in genres such as science-fiction, fantasy, historical novels, but also poetry, plays, and non-fiction.

Presents the four novels and fifty-six short stories which comprise the entire Sherlock Holmes saga

The fascinating true story of how Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the man who created Sherlock Holmes, also came to believe in ghosts and even fairies. Tracing the development of Conan Doyle's belief in Spiritualism from his early days in Southsea in 1887 to his departure in 1920 for Australia, where he continued his work as a Spiritualist Missionary.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) has been called the greatest genre writer Britain has ever produced, and Britain’s last national writer. His stories were popular in his lifetime, and continue to fascinate in many different forms and media today. In Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson he invented two of the most famous of all literary characters. But he was also the author of historical novels, science fiction, supernatural and horror stories, medical tales, travel narratives, autobiography, war reporting, drama and poetry, military history, and a body of Spiritualist writing. His exceptionally diverse and always lively writing makes him an outstanding literary figure, his work enjoyed and studied all over the world. The Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Arthur Conan Doyle is the first ever scholarly edition covering the author’s entire career. It establishes authoritative texts, accompanied by related materials, and acts as a research resource in placing them in biographical, cultural, historical, and literary-historical contexts.