HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. Featuring the last 12 stories ever written about the infamous detective, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes contains some of Conan Doyle's most villainous and unusual characters. The 1920s was a disenchanting era, and the darker mood of many of these stories reflects the environment at the time. Some even felt that the stories showed Conan Doyle exploring Spiritualism as it was an area he was interested in at the time and the mental derangement and physical disfigurements that crop up in many of the stories allude to the horrors of the First World War. The collection includes 'The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire', 'The Adventure of the Creeping Man' and 'The Adventure of the Lion's Mane'.


HaperCollins出版社隆重推出新系列叢書，每本都是備受喜愛的經典之作。

本書以描寫惡名昭彰的偵探福爾摩斯，其最後十二則故事為主軸，其中更有一些柯南道爾筆下罪大惡極且異於常人的角色。1920 年代是個失落的年代，這些故事的黑暗面正反映了當時的社會氛圍。有些人甚至覺得，這些故事顯示柯南道爾對唯心論的探討，那是他當時很感興趣的領域，而許多故事中偶然出現精神錯亂與身體變形的情節，則隱約指向第一次世界大戰帶來的恐慌。

本書包含〈 The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire 〉、〈 The Adventure of the Creeping Man 〉以及〈 The Adventure of the Lion's Mane 〉等精彩故事。