Sherlock Holmes

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The game''s afoot for the most famous amateur detective of all time in this collection of eight of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle''s classic tales.

¿The Speckled Band¿, a Victorian melodrama in a country house, comes complete with murderous villain, murdered heroine, and a very unpleasant snake; ¿Silver Blaze¿ tells of a missing race horse on Dartmoor which turns out not to be missing at all, and a murder that never was. In ¿The Redheaded League¿ a pawnbroker answers an advertisement for a red-headed man and bizarrely finds himself copying out the Encyclopedia Britannica; in ¿The Bruce Partington Plans¿ Holmes is skulking in the London Underground with a dead body when his patriotic services are called upon to find some stolen state secrets in the run-up to Wor