All legends begin somewhere, and the two novels here are where one of the worlds best-loved legends began. In A Study in Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson first meet and investigate a seemingly impossible mystery that begins with a corpse in a deserted house. In The Sign of the Four the detective faces an even greater challenge: solving both the disappearance of Captain Arthur Morstan and the theft of the Agra treasure in India.

In this Macmillan Collectors Library edition, Sherlock scholar David Stuart Davies provides an illuminating afterword.

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