Mystery & Detective

The novel that introduced Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson to the world, opening with a locked-room murder in a London slum.

A spectral hound is said to stalk the Baskerville family across the moor, and only Holmes suspects a very human hand behind it.

Eleven more cases for Sherlock Holmes, ending with his apparent death at the Reichenbach Falls — the story that was meant to kill the detective off for good.

Sherlock Holmes returns from the dead to resume his partnership with Watson in thirteen new cases, including the unmasking of his old enemy’s true fate.

A priceless diamond vanishes from a country house in the dead of night — widely considered the first great English detective novel.

Holmes comes out of retirement to catch a German spy on the eve of the First World War, in one of his last recorded adventures.

An armchair detective solves crimes from a corner table in a London tea shop, tying knots in a piece of string as he unpicks the police’s mistakes.

A wealthy young man is found strangled in a hansom cab in Melbourne, in the bestselling detective novel that beat Sherlock Holmes to print by a year.