The Adventure of the Six Napoleons / The Adventure of the Crooked Man

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmes was the greatest sleuth in all of English literature. Collected here in this giant oversized volume are seven Sherlock Homes books including A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, and The Valley of Fear. Now you can thrill with Holmes and Watson in all of their adventures.

Genres: Mystery, Fiction, Classics

Audio CD

First published January 1, 1988

About the author

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a Scottish writer and physician. 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 milestones in the field of crime fiction.

Doyle was a prolific writer. In addition to the Holmes stories, his works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger, and humorous stories about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels. One of Doyle's early short stories, "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" (1884), helped to popularise the mystery of the brigantine Mary Celeste, found drifting at sea with no crew member aboard.

Reviews

[James · Rating 3 out of 5]

Two very fun stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Two very easy reads showing the versatility of this author.

[jennifer · Rating 3 out of 5]

Why is someone so intent on smashing all the busts of Napoleon Bonaparte in London, even to the point of killing to break them? Oh, Mr. Holmes knows why.

Not one of the best but it's Sherlock Holmes and that ain't bad.