-Am dining at Goldini-s Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington. Please come at once and join me there. Bring with you a jemmy, a dark lantern, a chisel, and a revolver - S. H.-
The game''s afoot for the most famous amateur detective of all time in this collection of eight of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle''s classic tales.
-The Speckled Band-, a Victorian melodrama in a country house, comes complete with murderous villain, murdered heroine, and a very unpleasant snake; -Silver Blaze- tells of a missing race horse on Dartmoor which turns out not to be missing at all, and a murder that never was. In -The Redheaded League- a pawnbroker answers an advertisement for a red-headed man and bizarrely finds himself copying out the Encyclopedia Britannica; in -The Bruce Partington Plans- Holmes is skulking in the London Underground with a dead body when his patriotic services are called upon to find some stolen state secrets in the run-up to Wor
