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Few fictional characters have proved as popular as Sherlock Holmes. By retelling Arthur Conan Doyle's beloved stories in film adaptations, each generation re-creates Baker Street's most famous detective in its own image. To date, Holmes has been played on screen by Basil Rathbone, Jeremy Brett, Benedict Cumberbatch, Robert Downey, Jr., and many others. This book contains the twelve stories identified by Conan Doyle himself as being the quintessential Holmes adventures.

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Trevor Lipscombe, originally from Woolwich, England--a place described by Conan Doyle as ""sodden and greasy and cheerless""--is the director of The Catholic University of America Press. He is the author of Quick(er) Calculations and The Physics of Rugby, and editor of Saint John Henry Newman's novel Loss and Gain for the Ignatius Critical Editions. Joseph Pearce is the acclaimed author of numerous literary studies, including Literary Converts, The Quest for Shakespeare, and Shakespeare on Love, as well as popular biographies of Oscar Wilde, J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. He is the general editor of the Ignatius Critical Editions series.

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