Sidney Paget Orden de los libros (cronológico)

A Scandal in BohemiaThe Red-Headed LeagueA Case of IdentityThe Boscombe Valley MysteryThe Five Orange PipsThe Man with the Twisted LipThe Adventure of the Blue CarbuncleThe Adventure of the Speckled BandThe Adventure of the Engineer's ThumbThe Adventure of the Noble BachelorThe Adventure of the Beryl CoronetThe Adventure of the Copper BeechesThe Adventure of Silver BlazeThe Adventure of the Cardboard BoxThe Adventure of The Yellow FaceThe Adventure of The Stock-Broker's ClerkThe Adventure of The “Gloria Scott”The Adventure of The Musgrave RitualThe Adventure of The Reigate SquiresThe Adventure of The Crooked ManThe Adventure of The Resident PatientThe Adventure of The Greek InterpreterThe Adventure of The Naval TreatyThe Adventure of The Final ProblemThe Adventure of the Empty HouseThe Adventure of the Norwood BuilderThe Adventure of the Dancing MenThe Adventure of the Solitary CyclistThe Adventure of the Priory SchoolThe Adventure of Black PeterThe Adventure of Charles Augustus MilvertonThe Adventure of the Six NapoleonsThe Adventure of the Three StudentsThe Adventure of the Golden Pince-NezThe Adventure of the Missing Three-QuarterThe Adventure of the Abbey GrangeThe Adventure of the Second StainThe Hound of the Baskervilles

The Best o/ Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twenty of the very best tales from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fifty-six short stories featuring the arch sleuth. Basing his selec- tion around the author's own twelve personal favourites, David Stuart Davies has added a further eight sparkling stories to Conan Doyle's 'Baker Street Dozen', creating a unique volume which distils the pure essence of the world's most famous detective. Within these pages the reader will encounter the greatest collection of villains and the weirdest and most puzzling mysteries ever seen in print. And there at the centre, in a London swathed in eddies of fog and illuminated by gaslight, is to be found the remarkable character of Sherlock Holmes and his staunch companion, Doctor John H. Watson. Few will be able to resist this invitation to step aboard the waiting hansom cab and rattle off along cobbled streets into unimagined dangers and intrigues.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle escribió cuatro novelas con Holmes como protagonista y Watson como narrador: Estudio en escarlata, El signo de los cuatro, El sabueso de los Baskerville y El valle del terror. Su lectura resulta valiosa tanto por el placer que nos procura una aventura interesante y bien contada como porque, a través de ella, recibimos enseñanzas adicionales de historia y geografía y, sobre todo, de técnica narrativa y lógica de la investigación. Nos queda, pues, nuestra tarea de lectores: seguir paso a paso —y de la mano de un excelso narrador, Watson— a Sherlock Holmes en cada una de sus observaciones y razonamientos, hasta lograr resolver los misterios más insondables. Se trata de una aventura que pone en tensión nervios y músculos, y que abre nuestras mentes hacia la investigación de lo cognoscible y la imaginación de lo imposible.