The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories thatmade the fortunes of the Strand magazine, in which they were firstpublished, and won immense popularity for Sherlock Holmes and DrWatson. The detective is at the height of his powers and the volume is full of famous cases, including `The Red-Headed League´, `The BlueCarbuncle´, and `The Speckled Band´. Although Holmes gained areputation for infallibility, Conan Doyle showed his own realism andfeminism by having the great detective defeated by Irene Adler - thewoman - in the very first story, `A Scandal in Bohemia´. The editor of this volume, Richard Lancelyn Green is editor of The UncollectedSherlock Holmes and The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. WithJohn Michael Gibson, he compiled the Soho Series Bibliography of A.Conan Doyle.
