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A Treasury of Sherlock Holmes - With linked Table of Contents - cover

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A Treasury of Sherlock Holmes - With linked Table of Contents

Arthur Conan Doyle

Publisher: Wilder Publications

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Summary

Sherlock Holmes was the greatest sleuth in all of English literature. Collected here in this giant oversized volume are seven Sherlock Holmes books including 'A Study in Scarlet', 'The Sign of the Four', 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes', 'Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes', 'The Hound of the Baskervilles', 'The Return of Sherlock Holmes', and 'The Valley of Fear'. Now you can thrill with Holmes and Watson in all their greatest adventures.
Available since: 11/07/2014.

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