Few fictional characters have captured the imagination, or lasted as long, as Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. Each generation creates Baker Street’s most famous detective in its own image, by re-telling the stories, from Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, to Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, and beyond. 

This book contains the twelve stories identified by Conan Doyle as being the best Holmes adventures. 

The Ignatius Critical Editions represent a tradition-oriented alternative to popular textbook series, and are designed to concentrate on traditional readings of the Classics of world literature. 

Edited by acclaimed literary biographer Joseph Pearce, the Ignatius Critical Editions will ensure that traditional moral readings of the works are given prominence. As such, they represent a genuine extension of consumer choice, enabling educators, students, and lovers of good literature to buy editions of classic literary works without having to 'buy into' the ideologies of secular fundamentalism. This series includes additional critical essays and other helpful study features.