Oxford World's Classics
Published as part of a wider series of new Oxford World's Classics editions of Sherlock Holmes, this collection includes some of the detective's greatest cases, such as 'Silver Blaze' and 'The Naval Treaty', the emergence of Professor Moriarty, and even one case which Holmes fails to solve
Brings readers cases from the beginning of Sherlock Holmes' career to what could have been his final case
Includes an up-to-date bibliography, chronology of the author, and helpful explanatory notes
New to this Edition:
This is new edition has a set of detailed annotations, a revised bibliography, and a long introduction which takes account of recent scholarship on Arthur Conan Doyle and his most famous creation
Jarlath Killeen examines subjects such as the collection's treatment of the British Empire, race, social breakdown and the complex relationship between rationality, religion, and the occult
Contains a new examination of 'The Final Problem' in which Holmes' nemesis, Professor Moriarty, appears as the centre of a vast criminal conspiracy, with Holmes as the last agent capable of preventing the world falling into chaos
