The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

A man sits in Baker Street and reads your life off the mud on your shoes. The police arrive late. The client arrives desperate. Holmes is already bored — until the problem is strange enough: a king with a secret, a league that pays you to copy an encyclopedia, a whistle in the dark, a woman who might be cleverer than he is. Watson takes notes. London pretends to be respectable. These stories are the original hit of pure detection — come in, the game is on.