Harper Collins is proud to present its new range of best-loved essential classics' Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent as this Men who had only known the quiet thinker & logician of Baker Street would have failed to recognize him His face flushed & darkened His brows were drawn into two hard black lines while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter' Set against the foggy mysterious backdrops of London & the English countryside these are the first twelve stories ever published to feature the infamous Detective Sherlock Holmes & his side kick Doctor Watson They first appeared as stories in the Strand Magazine & feature some of his most famous & enjoyable cases including 'A Scandal in Bohemia' ' The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle' & ' The Red-headed League'