IN MY INMOST WHAT ONE MAN HEART I BELIEVED CAN INVENT, THAT I COULD ANOTHER CAN SUCCEED WHERE DISCOVER OTHERS FAILED I CAN DISCOVER MY NAME IS SHERLOCK FACTS, WATSON, HOLMES. IT IS MY I REALLY WOULDN’T BUT I CANNOT BUSINESS TO KNOW MISS YOUR CASE FOR WHAT OTHER PEOPLE CHANGE THEM THE WORLD DON’T KNOW I HAVE A TURN BOTH FOR OBSERVATION AND FOR DEDUCTION THE GAME IS BBBBBBIIIIGGGG IIDDEEEAAAAAAASSSS SSSIIMMMMPPPLYY EEEXXXXPPPLLLAAAAAIIINNNNNEEEEDD AFOOT ONE OF THE STRANGEST I HAVE THE CASES WHICH EVER THREADS OF THIS AFFAIR ALL PERPLEXED A MAN’S BRAIN IN MY HAND THE WHOLE THERE IS NOTHING THERE IS INEXPLICABLE MORE STIMULATING NOTHING LIKE TANGLE SEEMED THAN A CASE WHERE FIRST-HAND TO STRAIGHTEN EVERYTHING GOES EVIDENCE OUT BEFORE ME AGAINST YOU THE SHERLOCK HOLMES BOOK THE SHERLOCK HOLMES BOOK DK LONDON JACKET DESIGN First American Edition, 2015 DEVELOPMENT MANAGER Published in the United States by SENIOR ART EDITOR Sophia MTT DK Publishing, 345 Hudson Street Helen Spencer New York, New York 10014 PRE-PRODUCTION PRODUCER PROJECT EDITOR Gillian Reid Copyright © 2015 Alexandra Beeden Dorling Kindersley Limited PRODUCER A Penguin Random House Company DESIGNERS Mandy Inness 15 16 17 18 19 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Bobby Birchall, Vanessa Hamilton 001—283947—Oct/2015 PICTURE RESEARCH EDITORS Roland Smithies, All rights reserved. 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Gareth Jones MANAGING JACKETS EDITOR ISBN: 978-1-4654-3849-2 ART DIRECTOR Saloni Singh DK books are available at special discounts Karen Self PICTURE RESEARCH when purchased in bulk ASSOCIATE PUBLISHING Aditya Katyal for sales promotions, premiums, DIRECTOR fund-raising, or educational use. Liz Wheeler For details, contact: DK Publishing Special Markets, 345 Hudson Street, New York, original styling by PUBLISHING DIRECTOR New York 10014 STUDIO 8 Jonathan Metcalf [email protected] JACKET DESIGNER Printed and bound in China Natalie Godwin A WORLD OF IDEAS: JACKET EDITOR SEE ALL THERE IS TO KNOW Claire Gell www.dk.com CONTRIBUTORS DAVID STUART DAVIES, CONSULTANT EDITOR JOHN FARNDON David Stuart Davies is a crime writer, playwright, and editor. John Farndon is a Royal Literary Fellow at Anglia Ruskin University Regarded as an authority on Sherlock Holmes, he has written seven in Cambridge, UK, and an author, playwright, and composer. Holmes novels and several nonfiction works, including Starring Among his many books are Do You Think You’re Clever? and Sherlock Holmes (Titan), and edited numerous collections dealing Do Not Open. He is the creator of The Secret History of Objects with the Baker Street sleuth. His latest Holmes title is Sherlock tales, which premiered at the Moscow Polytech Festival in 2015. Holmes & The Devil’s Promise (Titan). His own detectives are ANDREW HERITAGE Johnny Hawke, a private detective operating in London during World War II; Luther Darke, a Victorian “puzzle solver”; and DI Paul Snow, a Yorkshire policeman in a series of novels set in Andrew Heritage is a publishing consultant who specializes the 1980s, the most recent being Innocent Blood (Mystery Press). in cartography, current affairs, art, popular culture, and literary His website is www.davidstuartdavies.com history. He has edited and contributed to over 100 titles including the DK Atlas of World History, The Book of Codes, The Book of BARRY FORSHAW, CONSULTANT EDITOR Saints, The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction, and Great Movies. ALEX WHITTLETON Barry Forshaw is one of the UK’s leading experts on crime fiction and film. His books include Nordic Noir, Sex and Film, and The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction. Other works include Death in a Cold Alex Whittleton is a freelance professional writer on a range Climate, British Gothic Cinema, Euro Noir, and the Keating Award - of nonfiction subjects, including literature, lifestyle, media, winning British Crime Writing: An Encyclopedia, along with books and food. She has had academic work published in the Thomas on Italian cinema and Stieg Larsson. He writes for various national Hardy Yearbook and has a particular interest in Victorian newspapers and edits Crime Time (www.crimetime.co.uk). literature and culture. DAVID ANDERSON LIZ WYSE David Anderson is a researcher based in the Department of English Liz Wyse is an author and editor who has written on a wide range at University College London, where he specializes in the literature of historical subjects, and recently created a range of books on and film of the city. He is a senior editor at Review 31, a staff writer etiquette and modern manners for Debrett’s. She has edited a at Connell Guides, and writer-in-residence at the Cob Gallery. number of historical atlases, including The Times Atlas of World Archaeology and The Historical Atlas of New York City, and was JOLY BRAIME Editor-in-Chief of The Guinness Book of World Records. Joly Braime has been a magazine journalist, a guidebook and website editor, and a freelance writer who has worked on everything from financial books to articles about Fifty Shades of Grey. He has been a Holmes obsessive since acquiring The Complete Sherlock Holmes at the age of 11. 6 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 62 I really wouldn’t miss 90 Each new discovery your case for the world furnishes a step The Red-Headed League which leads on to 14 Steel true, blade straight the complete truth Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 68 The little things are The Adventure of the infinitely the most Engineer’s Thumb 22 My name is Sherlock important Holmes. It is my business A Case of Identity 94 I had formed my to know what other conclusions as to the people don’t know 70 There is nothing case before our client Sherlock Holmes more deceptive than came into the room an obvious fact The Adventure of the 26 I was a whetstone for his The Boscombe Noble Bachelor mind. I stimulated him Valley Mystery Dr. John Watson 96 There are women in 74 I am the last court whom the love of a 28 He sits motionless, of appeal lover extinguishes like a spider in the The Five Orange Pips all other loves centre of its web The Adventure of the Professor James Moriarty 80 It is better to learn Beryl Coronet wisdom late than 30 I am a practical man, never to learn it at all 98 Crime is common. Mr. Holmes, and when I The Man with the Logic is rare have got my evidence Twisted Lip The Adventure of the I come to my conclusions Copper Beeches Inspector G. Lestrade 82 In the larger and older jewels every facet may THE GREAT stand for a bloody deed THE EARLY The Adventure of the DETECTIVE ADVENTURES Blue Carbuncle 84 Violence does, in truth, 106 The real murderer is 36 There’s the scarlet recoil upon the violent standing immediately thread of murder The Adventure of the behind you running through the Speckled Band Silver Blaze colourless skein of life A Study in Scarlet 110 There is no part of the body which varies 46 I never make exceptions. so much as the An exception disproves human ear the rule The Cardboard Box The Sign of Four 112 Any truth is better 56 You see, but you than indefinite doubt do not observe The Yellow Face A Scandal in Bohemia 7 114 Human nature is a 162 This empty house is my 192 Surely my deductions strange mixture, Watson tree, and you are my tiger are simplicity itself The Stockbroker’s Clerk The Adventure of the The Adventure of the Empty House Golden Pince-Nez 116 And then in an instant the key of the riddle 168 All my instincts are one 196 When a man is lost it is my was in my hands way, and all the facts duty to ascertain his fate The Gloria Scott are the other The Adventure of the The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter 120 In my inmost heart I Norwood Builder believed that I could 198 The game is afoot succeed where others failed 170 I have the threads of this The Adventure of the The Musgrave Ritual affair all in my hand Abbey Grange The Adventure of the 126 The results show that the Dancing Men 202 It is a capital mistake trap was skillfully baited to theorize in advance The Reigate Squire 176 She thinks she does not of the facts know the man; I am The Adventure of the 132 One of the strangest cases convinced she does Second Stain which ever perplexed a The Adventure of the man’s brain Solitary Cyclist HOLMES TAKES The Crooked Man 178 A criminal who was A BOW 134 I can read in a man’s eye capable of such a when it is his own skin thought is a man whom he is frightened for I should be proud to do 212 A great brain and a huge The Resident Patient business with organization have been The Adventure of the turned to the extinction 136 To the logician all things Priory School of one man should be seen exactly The Valley of Fear as they are 184 One should always look The Greek Interpreter for a possible alternative, 222 The whole inexplicable and provide against it tangle seemed to straighten 138 The most difficult crime The Adventure of out before me to track is the one which Black Peter The Adventure of is purposeless Wisteria Lodge The Naval Treaty 186 By jove, Watson; I’ve got it! 226 Different threads, but 142 Danger is part of my trade The Adventure of Charles leading to the same tangle The Final Problem Augustus Milverton The Adventure of the Red Circle 188 There is a certain method 230 The London criminal is A LEGEND in the gentleman’s certainly a dull fellow RETURNS eccentric proceedings The Adventure of the The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans Six Napoleons 152 There is nothing more 234 Well, Watson, we stimulating than a case 190 Let us hear the suspicions. seem to have fallen where everything goes I will look after the proofs upon evil days against you The Adventure of the The Adventure of the The Hound of the Baskervilles Three Students Dying Detective 8 236 We simply can’t afford 266 Some people’s affability THE WORLD OF to wait for the police is more deadly than the SHERLOCK HOLMES or to keep within the violence of coarser souls four corners of the law The Adventure of the The Disappearance of Illustrious Client 296 What do you say to a Lady Frances Carfax 272 I am not the law, but I ramble through London? 240 I have seldom known represent justice so far The Victorian World a case which at first as my feeble powers go 300 There is nothing sight presented a more The Adventure of the so unnatural as singular problem Three Gables the commonplace The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot 274 I see no more than you, Sherlock and Society but I have trained myself 246 There’s an east wind to notice what I see 306 I have a turn both for observation and for coming, Watson The Adventure of the deduction His Last Bow Blanched Soldier The Art of Deduction 278 I am an omnivorous THE FINAL 310 There is nothing like reader with a strangely first-hand evidence DEDUCTIONS retentive memory Criminology and for trifles Forensic Science The Adventure of the 252 This man has come for Lion’s Mane 316 You know my methods. his own purpose, but he may stay for mine 284 We reach. We grasp. Apply them Crime Writing and The Adventure of the And what is left in Detective Fiction Mazarin Stone our hands at the end? A shadow 254 I can discover facts, The Adventure of the 324 What one man can invent, another can discover Watson, but I cannot Retired Colourman The Fans of Sherlock Holmes change them The Problem of 286 Patient suffering is in 328 The best way of Thor Bridge itself the most precious successfully acting of all lessons 258 When one tries to rise The Adventure of the a part is to be it Sherlock on Stage and Screen above nature one is Veiled Lodger liable to fall below it The Adventure of the 288 It is only the colourless, 336 The many faces of Holmes Creeping Man uneventful case which 340 Holmes by other hands is hopeless 260 The world is big The Adventure of 344 Conan Doyle’s other works enough for us. No Shoscombe Old Place ghosts need apply The Adventure of the 346 INDEX Sussex Vampire 352 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 262 There is some guilty secret in the room The Adventure of the Three Garridebs