Sherlock Holmes is the greatest fictional detective in the world. The hero of fifty-six short stories and four novels, he is so convincing that letters still arrive at 221b Baker Street seeking his help, and when it was thought that he had died in his clash with the evil Professor Moriarty ("the Napoleon of Crime") young men in London wore black armbands. This handsome edition presents all of the short stories as well as the four full-length novels, including A Study in Scarlet which introduced the immortal detective to his adoring readers. Illustrated by Sidney Paget, who prepared these inspired black-and-white drawings for the original publication in The Strand Magazine, and his successors on the magazine.