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The Five Orange Pips starts on a stormy night with Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in their old home together. They receive a visit from an unexpected guest in deep trouble with the K.K.K. John Openshaw recalls his father’s and uncle’s deaths after receiving letters with five orange pips and three letter K’s written in them. Sherlock Holmes advises John Openshaw about his next move, but it is too late. The newspapers declare...
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Although he also wrote several novels featuring the world's greatest fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, it was especially in his short stories that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle perfected the Holmes formula. And of the five collections of Holmes short stories (about a dozen in each collection), "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" (published in 1892) was the first and is easily the most popular and best of the five. It contains...
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Did you know that Holmes never, ever said "Elementary, my dear Watson" in any of the sixty stories Arthur Conan Doyle wrote? The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes were initially published in "The Strand" magazine as a series of 24 short stories. These stories saw publication between 1891 and 1893. When they were published in book form, the first twelve were published as "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" and the last twelve...
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Are you ready to accompany the greatest detective in history on some of his most memorable adventures? Then this book is for you! Each of these stories are wonderfully put together, each with a more exciting and unexpected outcome. I have read them time and again, and am always newly surprised at Holmes's genius and reasoning abilities.Are you still hesitant on whether or not to read "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes?"...
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