*Crime, Spies & Sleaze: Like Superman and Tarzan, Sherlock Holmes is a household name, one of the literary iconic characters. Though not the first example of a literary ‘consulting detective’, Holmes is undoubtedly the most famous. These days we know him from countless film, TV and radio versions, and it is perhaps strange to realise that there were just four novels and fifty-six short stories penned by his creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, over a hundred years ago. In our inventory we have a mix of editions including two novels (A Study in Scarlet, the first, and The Hound Of The Baskervilles, the most famous), two paperback story collections (The Case-Book Of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes), one handsome dust-jacketed hardcover collection (His Last Bow) and, new in, The Uncollected Sherlock Holmes: short plays, jottings, ‘sensational strategems’, parodies and self-parodies gathered in one volume as the perfect companion to the stories. If you’ve never read these ask yourself ‘should you?’ The answer is, of course, rather elementary… 
PICTURED: ALL BY ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE ALL SOLD
A STUDY IN SCARLET John Murray 1969 UK PB VG £3
THE CASE-BOOK OF SHERLOCK HOLMES Penguin 1987 23rd UK PB VG £2.50
HIS LAST BOW Murray/Cape UK HC VG £10
THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES John Murray 1961 UK PB GD £3
THE MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES Penguin 1981 UK PB FN £4
THE UNCOLLECTED SHERLOCK HOLMES Penguin 1983 1st UK PB VF £6