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Sinopse

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

These fifteen short stories, chosen by David Stuart Davies, former Editor of Sherlock magazine, show the master detective Sherlock Holmes at his most ingenious. Faithfully supported by his chronicler, Dr Watson, Holmes pits his wits against 'the Napoleon of Crime', Professor Moriarty, assists European royalty threatened by disgrace, helps to solve the mysterious death of a young woman due to be married, and becomes involved with other intrigues that defeat the detectives of Scotland Yard. The original illustrations from The Strand magazine by Sidney Paget accompany each story.

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Autor

Arthur Conan Doyle

Médico e escritor escocês, nasceu a 22 de Maio de 1859, em Edimburgo, e faleceu a 7 de Julho de 1930. Notável contador de histórias, que concebia com grande poder imaginativo, tornou-se extremamente popular a partir da publicação da primeira aventura do detetive Sherlock Holmes, em 1887. Seguiram-se dezenas de histórias com Holmes como protagonista. Para além destas obras, Doyle publicou também narrativas históricas (como The White Company) e de ficção científica (como The Lost World).

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