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In 1914, a young woman named Mary Russell meets a retired beekeeper on the Sussex Downs. His name is Sherlock Holmes. And although he may have all the Victorian "flaws" listed above, the Great Detective is no fool, and can spot a fellow intellect even in a fifteen-year-old woman. So, at first informally, then consciously, he takes Mary as his apprentice. They work on a few small local cases, then, on a larger and more urgent investigation, which ends...
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"Good stuff ... Breezy, British, and as comfy as a Cotswold cottage."-"The New York Times Book Review."
"Written with energy and style, a masterly performance."-"Rocky Mountain News."
John Mountjoy has escaped from prison and taken a hostage, and the only person he'll talk to is Detective Peter Diamond, who arrested him four years earlier for the murder of a young journalist. Diamond must follow a cold trail to find another killer and clear Mountjoy's...
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Since his first appearance in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Bantam Classics presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyle's classic hero -- a truly complete collection of Sherlock Holmes's adventures in crime! Volume I includes the early novel A study in scarlet, which introduced the eccentric genius of Sherlock...
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