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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Crime & mystery > General
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved,
essential classics.
'Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a
scent as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and
logician of Baker Street would have failed to recognize him. His
face flushed and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black
lines, while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely
glitter.'
Set against the foggy, mysterious backdrops of London and the
English countryside, these are the first twelve stories ever
published to feature the infamous Detective Sherlock Holmes and his
side kick Doctor Watson. They first appeared as stories in the
Strand Magazine and feature some of his most famous and enjoyable
cases, including 'A Scandal in Bohemia', 'The Adventure of the Blue
Carbuncle' and 'The Red-headed League'.
A Christmas slaying, an Egyptian puzzle, and a night in the home of
a stranger-three chillers from the New York Times-bestselling
"grandmaster" of mystery (Publishers Weekly). A thriller writer is
embroiled in a real-life whodunit when a friend drops dead in front
of her, with her own hatpin impaled in his back. The violation of a
sealed West Bank tomb, its rock walls intact, provides a Thebes
investigator with a mystifying conundrum. And two sisters take
shelter from a storm in a shuttered old house at the end of a
country road . . . only to discover they're not alone. Settle in
with this trio of short stories-available for the first time in a
single volume-from one of the most popular mystery writers of all
time. With her customary sharp wit, historical expertise, and
effortless knack for freezing the blood, Elizabeth Peters "never
fails to entertain" (The Plain Dealer).
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