'It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.' Sherlock Holmes, scourge of criminals everywhere, whether they be lurking in London's foggy backstreets or plotting behind the walls of an idyllic country mansion, and his faithful colleague Dr Watson solve twelve breathtaking and perplexing mysteries. In The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the first collection of the great consulting detective's cases, we encounter some of his most famous and devilishly difficult problems, including A Scandal in Bohemia, The Speckled Band, The Red-Headed League, The Blue Carbuncle, The Five Orange Pips and The Man with the Twisted Lip.

ロンドンにまき起る奇怪な事件を追って神出鬼没する名探偵シャーロック・ホームズは、その怜悧な推理と魅力的な個性で読者を魅了する。近代探偵小説を確立したホームズ物語の第一短編集。赤毛の男が加入した奇妙な組合のからくりを追う「赤髪組合」、乞食を三日やったらやめられない話「唇の捩れた男」など10編。意表をつく事件の展開、軽妙なユーモアがあふれる作品集である。