Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, his assistant, are given a seemingly simple mystery to solve involving a goose and a hat. But the case takes an unexpected turn when a gem reported stolen in the newspapers turns up as well. Will Holmes be able to piece this puzzle together to identify the thief of the famous blue carbuncle.

"The whole world knows Sherlock Holmes and his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Yet how many know Conan Doyle's other creations, inhabitants of worlds of adventure, surprise and, sometimes, mind-bending horror? Never before published in the United States, this volume presents some of Conan Doyle's unduly neglected masterworks of suspense. Each begins in a quietly factual way which makes all the more dramatic the crescendo of fear and puzzlement which ensues as each startling new circumstance is revealed.