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Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [11 stories]

Arthur Conan Doyle

1893 ★ 4.5

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories]

Arthur Conan Doyle

1892 ★ 4.2

A Study in Scarlet

Arthur Conan Doyle

1892 ★ 4.0

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle

1902 ★ 4.0

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Agatha Christie

1926 ★ 4.2

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

1905 ★ 4.3

Prentice Hall Literature

Isabel Allende, Alan Axelrod, Richard Connell et al.

2007 ★ 4.1

The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time

O. Henry, Jacques Futrelle, Robert Barr et al.

1998

Sherlock Holmes. His Most Famous Mysteries (Adventure of the Gloria Scott / Adventure of the Greek Interpreter / Scandal in Bohemia / Sign of Four / Study in Scarlet)

Arthur Conan Doyle

1974

The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]

Arthur Conan Doyle

1930 ★ 4.5

Short Stories (Adventure of the Dancing Men / Adventure of the Devil's Foot / Adventure of the Empty House / Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual / Adventure of the Priory School / Adventure of the Reigate Squire / Adventure of the Second Stain / Adventure of the Speckled Band / Final Problem / Five Orange Pips / Red-Headed League / Scandal in Bohemia)

Arthur Conan Doyle

2009

Murders to Die For (Murder At the Vicarage / Murder in Mesopotamia / Murder Is Easy / Murder of Roger Ackroyd / Murder on the Links / Murder on the Orient Express / Sleeping Murder)

Agatha Christie

2005

Works (Boscombe Valley Mystery / Red-Headed League / Scandal in Bohemia / Sign of Four / Study in Scarlet)

Arthur Conan Doyle

1958

A Treasury of Sherlock Holmes [2 novels, 27 stories]

Arthur Conan Doyle

1955

Scary Classics

Maria Magallanes, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle et al.

2000

Sherlock Holmes (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [11 stories] / Sign of Four / Study in Scarlet)

Arthur Conan Doyle

1930

Short Stories (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories])

Arthur Conan Doyle

1975

65 Great Spine Chillers

Mary Danby, Ramsey Campbell, Ambrose Bierce et al.

1982

The Best of Sherlock Holmes [20 stories]

Arthur Conan Doyle

1998

Detective Stories from the Strand

Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jack Adrian

1991

Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder

T. A. Willberg

2022

Works (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories] / Sign of Four / Study in Scarlet)

Arthur Conan Doyle

1950

The Complete Sherlock Holmes [2/2] (Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes / His Last Bow / Hound of the Baskervilles / Return of Sherlock Holmes / Valley of Fear)

Arthur Conan Doyle

1930

More Stories to Remember -- Volume II

John Masefield, John Galsworthy, F. Scott Fitzgerald et al.

1958

Adventures in reading

Blanche Jennings Thompson, Agatha Christie, Jacob M. Ross et al.

1947

Sherlock Holmes Short Stories [19 stories]

Arthur Conan Doyle

2018

The Red-Headed League

Arthur Conan Doyle

1990 ★ 3.7

Fireside Reader

Charles Dickens, Reader's Digest Association, Roald Dahl et al.

1978

The Adventure of the Speckled Band and Other Stories of Sherlock Holmes (Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle / Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans / Adventure of the Empty House/ Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual / Adventure of the Speckled Band / Dancing Men / Final Problem / Naval Treaty / Red-Headed League / Scandal in Bohemia / Silver Blaze / Six Napoleons)

Arthur Conan Doyle

1965

Sherlock Holmes Reader (Adventure of the Dancing Men / Adventure of the Empty House / Adventure of the Gloria Scott / Adventure of the Speckled Band / Final Problem / Five Orange Pips / Red-Headed League / Scandal in Bohemia)

Arthur Conan Doyle

1994

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