Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The

When the enormously popular Sherlock Holmes series was discontinued only a few years after the appearance in a London newspaper in 1891, the public was enraged and demanded a continuation of the series. Now more than a century later, the engrossing power of these tales remains as strong as ever. Narrated by Holmes' devoted and easily astonished companion Dr. Watson, each mystery rapidly draws the reader into the game of detection as the two men prowl around London and its environ, finding clues and unraveling the unfathomable. As the continuous popularity of the stories prove, the sleuthful doings of Sherlock Holmes are almost impossible to put down once one begins reading.