The Annotated Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

“There is no better guide to this seriously playful detective work than Leslie Klinger and The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes.” -Michael Dirda The task will never be performed better, and in fact, need never be done be again. “This is what we have been waiting for: all the Sherlock Holmes stories with the most learned, interesting, revelatory annotations possible. Their hundreds of illustrations alone are worth the books’ price… a marvelous milestone in Sherlockian criticism.” -Martin Gardner, editor of The Annotated Alice The books’ more than two thousand notes are awesome in their scope and erudition. “No Sherlockian, here or around the world, can fail to be overwhelmed and overjoyed by Leslie Klinger’s annotated edition of Watson’s collection of Holmes’s most colorful cases. King, author of the best-selling Mary Russell series Leslie Klinger’s The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes reveals a writer rich in both requirements, producing a work both entertaining and informative.” -Laurie R. “Sherlockian commentary is both a science and an art, demanding on the one hand a prodigious knowledge of a thousand disparate subjects and on the other hand a degree of wit and humor to ease its presentation. Volume 2: The Return of Sherlock Holmes, His Last Bow and The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

Volume 1: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Inside, readers will find a cornucopia of insights: beginners will benefit from Klinger’s insightful biographies of Holmes, Watson, and Conan Doyle history lovers will revel in the wealth of Victorian literary and cultural details Sherlockian fanatics will puzzle over tantalizing new theories art lovers will thrill to the 800-plus illustrations, which make this the most lavishly illustrated edition of the Holmes tales ever produced. The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes illuminates the timeless genius of Arthur Conan Doyle for an entirely new generation of readers. In this boxed set, Leslie Klinger, a leading world authority, reassembles Arthur Conan Doyle’s 56 classic short stories in the order in which they appeared in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century book editions.

This monumental edition promises to be the most important new contribution to Sherlock Holmes literature since William Baring-Gould’s 1967 classic work.

The Annotated Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle