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This novel takes place in the London parish of Paddington. The story opens with the murder of an old Jewish pawnbroker. Our Scottish hero, Andrew Lauriston, a penniless aspiring writer, has the misfortune of finding the body, and is accused of killing and robbing the old man. But then it’s found the pawnbroker had had in his possession an extraordinary South African diamond worth over eighty-thousand...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - a collection of short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, a British writer and medical doctor. He created the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. This collection of stories consists of: A Scandal in Bohemia The Red-Headed League A Case of Identity The Boscombe...

The first volume of the book composes of 2 novels („The Study in Scarlet” and „The Sign of Four”) and 3 compilation of short stories and mini adventures of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. Each story has a completely different plot which goes on smoothly till the end. Volume 1 includes the early novel „A Study in Scarlet”, which introduced the eccentric genius of Sherlock Holmes to the world. This...