This enthralling collection of short stories features Arthur Conan Doyle's 12 favourite Sherlock Holmes tales.

In 1927, The Strand Magazine, which published many of the Sherlock Holmes stories, ran a competition for fans to guess the author's own favourite tales. In the March of that year, the magazine published an article by Arthur Conan Doyle listing his top 12 Sherlock stories and why. This collection features all those short stories alongside Conan Doyle's article and the original illustrations by Sidney Paget and Charles R. Macauley. Delve into the dark world of Victorian London with this volume and experience the very best of Sherlock Holmes.

The stories featured in this collection include:

- The Speckled Band

- The Red-Headed League

- The Dancing Men

- The Final Problem

- A Scandal in Bohemia

- The Empty House