It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable,
must be the truth. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of
The Strand Magazine, in which they were first published, and won immense popularity for Sherlock Holmes and
Dr Watson. The detective is at the height of his powers and the volume is full of famous cases, including 'The
Red-Headed League', 'The Blue Carbuncle', and 'The Speckled Band'. Although Holmes gained a reputation
for infallibility, Conan Doyle showed his own realism and feminism by having the great detective defeated by
Irene Adler - the Woman - in the very first story, 'A Scandal in Bohemia'.
Catherine Wynne's introduction reappraises the stories by looking at Conan Doyle's medical background and
its influence on the creation of the famous detective. This edition also features completely revised explanatory
notes to reflect the most recent scholarship on Conan Doyle and Victorian Literature.