Akron Public Library

Contains all of Sherlock Holmes' adventures. Includes four novels and 56 short stories.

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a classic collection of short stories that further cements Sherlock Holmes' reputation as the ultimate detective and Arthur Conan Doyle's status as a master storyteller. In these twelve tales, Holmes tackles a variety of challenging cases, each showcasing his unparalleled deductive abilities, from the mysterious death of a young man in The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual to the intriguing case of the missing...

Contains Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's first twelve stories and includes such famous cases as "The Red-headed League," in which Holmes uncovers a well-concealed, devilishly clever criminal plot "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle," in which Holmes must trap a jewel thief--with astonishing results "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," in which Holmes and Watson find themselves dealing with treachery, violence, and deadly snakes and nine more equally thrilling...

London, 1931. The night before an exhibition of his artwork opens at a Mayfair gallery, controversial artist Nick Bassington-Hope falls to his death. The police rule it an accident, but Nick's twin sister, Georgina isn't convinced, so she seeks out a fellow college graduate, Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator, for help. Before long the case leads Maisie to the beaches of Dungeness, and into the sinister underbelly of the city's art world...

Poirot is joined by the mysterious problem solver Harley Quin in the pages of The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories is a collection of ingenious short masterworks of mystery and suspense that showcase the legendary Christie at her very best.

Maisie Dobbs' first assignment for the British Secret Service takes her undercover to Cambridge as a professor, and leads to the investigation of a murderous web of activities being conducted by the up-and-coming Nazi party.

The book begins with Ben's expulsion from Vivian Durridge's stables; he's removed with a false accusation of glue sniffing. But as Ben soon discovers, it is, in fact, his powerful father's machinations that are behind his ill fortunes. The elder Juliard is "standing for Parliament," and the bachelor candidate needs his son by his side for a year of campaigning if he hopes to win. Ben accedes to his father's wishes. He almost always has, but he soon...

From the lost Pekinese to the blackmail of the most powerful man in England, it's one last great feat for the Hercules of crime before he retires...