Selected Edited & Introduced by David Stuart Davies The Best of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twenty of the very best tales from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fifty-six short stories featuring the arch sleuth Basing his selection around the author's own twelve personal favourites David Stuart Davies has added a further eight sparkling stories to Conan Doyle's Baker Street Dozen' creating a unique volume which distils the pure essence of the world's most famous detective Within these pages the reader will encounter the greatest collection of villains & the weirdest & most puzzling mysteries ever seen in print & there at the centre in a London swathed in eddies of fog & illuminated by gaslight is to be found the remarkable character of Sherlock Holmes & his staunch companion Doctor John H Watson Few will be able to resist this invitation to step aboard the waiting hansom cab & rattle off along cobbled streets into unimagined dangers & intrigues