The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes is the final set of twelve (out of a total of fifty-six) Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes includes ‘’The Adventure of the Illustrious Client’, ‘The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier’, ‘The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone’, ‘The Adventure of the Three Gables’, ‘The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire’, ‘The Adventure of the Three Garridebs’, ‘The Problem of Thor Bridge’, ‘The Adventure of the Creeping Man’, ‘The Adventure of the Lion’s Mane’, ‘The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger’, ‘The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place’ & ‘The Adventure of the Retired Colourman’.
Rip-roaring and spine-chilling, these stories have been intriguing readers for generations.
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Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and medical doctor. Doyle began writing while studying at the University of Edinburgh Medical School, which he joined in 1876. Doyle graduated in 1881 and was employed as a surgeon on the steamer Mayumba on its voyage to the West African coast. 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 generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction.
Sherlock Holmes, the most well-known fictional detective, has been listed with Guinness World Records as the “most portrayed movie character” in history.