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  • Little Women (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. The March Sisters' Coming‑of‑Age in Civil War–Era Concord: Domestic Realism, Education, Independence, and Middle‑Class Resilience

    by Louisa May Alcott, Sylvanus Bishop, Sylvanus Bishop ...
    Illustrated by Frank T. Merrill ...
    Little Women follows the intertwined bildungsroman of the March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—set in Civil War–era New England. Alcott fuses domestic realism with comic verve and measured didacticism, staging scenes of work, illness, art, and courtship that test duty against desire. Situated between sentimental fiction and emerging American realism, the novel advances a quiet proto-feminist case ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Hound of the Baskervilles (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson probe a Devonshire moorland curse—an epistolary whodunit pitting reason against superstition.

    by Arthur Conan Doyle, Sylvanus Bishop, Sylvanus Bishop ...
    The Hound of the Baskervilles, serialized in The Strand Magazine (1901-02), weds Gothic atmospherics to the rigors of deductive detection. When Sir Charles Baskerville dies under the shadow of a legendary, spectral hound, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson probe the desolate Dartmoor, a terrain of fog, tors, and the treacherous Grimpen Mire. Doyle's controlled pacing, epistolary inserts, and Watson's ... Read more

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  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. Mischief on the Mississippi: a boyhood coming-of-age with fence-painting schemes and a treasure cave in antebellum Missouri

    by Mark Twain, Sylvanus Bishop, Sylvanus Bishop ...
    Set along the Mississippi in fictional St. Petersburg, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer follows a boy's pranks and perils—whitewashed fence, midnight graveyard, a cave, a courtroom surprise—into social initiation. Twain blends picaresque episodes with a coming-of-age arc, using vernacular speech, quick dialogue, and comic set pieces to expose adult hypocrisy and small-town morality. Published in 1876, ... Read more

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  • A Study in Scarlet (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. The first Holmes and Watson case: a Baker Street murder, forensic deduction, and a trail from gaslit London to the American West

    by Arthur Conan Doyle, Sylvanus Bishop, Sylvanus Bishop ...
    A Study in Scarlet inaugurates the Sherlock Holmes saga with a daring, two-part architecture: a London murder investigation followed by an American frontier chronicle that redefines motive and justice. Through Dr. Watson's measured memoir, Conan Doyle fuses ratiocination with Victorian forensics—chemical blood tests, footprints, cigar ash—and shifts, midstream, to an omniscient history. First ... Read more

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  • The Sign of the Four (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. A Victorian London mystery: Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson face the Agra treasure conspiracy, Mary Morstan, and a deadly Thames chase.

    by Arthur Conan Doyle, Sylvanus Bishop, Sylvanus Bishop ...
    The Sign of the Four, Conan Doyle's second Holmes novel (1890), blends brisk scientific detection with sensation and imperial gothic. A cryptic summons leads Holmes and Watson to Mary Morstan, the Agra treasure, and a revenge pact stretching from the Indian Mutiny to the Thames. Taut pursuit alternates with Jonathan Small's confession, while Watson's warmth counterpoints Holmes's cool method. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

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  • The Sherlock Holmes Handbook

    The Methods and Mysteries of the World's Greatest Detective

    by Ransom Riggs ...
    Full of fascinating how-to skills and evocative illustrations, this must-have guide will appeal to Baker Street Irregulars of all ages.This reader’s companion to the casework of Sherlock Holmes explores the methodology of the world’s most famous consulting detective. From analyzing fingerprints and decoding ciphers to creating disguises and faking one’s own death, readers will learn how Holmes ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Final Problem

    by Arthur Conan Doyle ...
    »The Final Problem« is a short story by Arthur Conan Doyle, about the brilliant Victorian detective Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in 1893.SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE [1859-1930], was a Scottish physician and author, best known for his stories about the groundbreaking master detective Sherlock Holmes. Doyle wrote a total of 56 short stories and four novels about Sherlock Holmes and his ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Sherlock Holmes

    In His Own Words and in the Words of Those Who Knew Him

    by Barry Day ...
    A delightful biography of Sherlock Holmes that draws on quotations from Dr. WatsonMore has been written about Sherlock Holmes in a century than was written about Shakespeare in four. It is a testament to the enduring allure of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's great detective that long after his last bow, devotees of Baker Street have continued to produce stories, films, and television works based on the ... Read more

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  • The Adventure Of The Dying Detective

    by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ...
    "The Adventure Of The Dying Detective" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is a classic work that represents the essence of its genre. This book offers readers an engaging experience, reflecting the author’s distinctive style, depth, and vision. ... Read more

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  • Sherlock Holmes: The Problem of Thor Bridge and The Cabman's Story: The Mysteries of a London Growler

    by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ...
    Somewhere in the vaults of the bank of Cox and Co., at Charing Cross, there is a travel-worn and battered tin dispatchbox with my name, John H. Watson, M. D., Late Indian Army, painted upon the lid. It is crammed with papers, nearly all of which are records of cases to illustrate the curious problems which Mr. Sherlock Holmes had at various times to examine. Some, and not the least interesting, ... Read more

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  • The Hound of the Baskervilles

    [Vol.5] [Special Illustrated Edition] [Free Audio Links]

    by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ...
    Series series Sherlock Holmes Stories - Starbooks Classics Collection
    The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural ... Read more

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  • Sherlock Holmes: The Novels

    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ...
    Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
    All four legendary Sherlock Holmes novels, collected in a unique Graphic Deluxe Edition with an introduction by Michael DirdaThough endlessly reinterpreted, reinvented, and imitated, the Sherlock Holmes stories have never been surpassed. Sporting his signature billowing coat and pipe in hand, the genius investigator Holmes captivates readers with his alluring melancholy and superhuman intuition, ... Read more

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