holmes, sherlock (fictional character)

Late one night, Sir Charles Baskerville is attacked outside his castle in Dartmoor, England. The world's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes, is on the case. Written in graphic-novel format.

When Sherlock Holmes decides to capture his arch-enemy and destroy his criminal network, the Baker Street Irregulars follow Holmes across Europe as he sets a trap for the evil Professor Moriarty.

Presents three mystery stories in which ace detective Sherlock Holmes and his associate Dr. Watson uncover a complex theft, thwart a murder, and uncover the reasons for a strange request from an employer.

When a popular magician's wife goes missing, Sherlock looks for clues. But, as any good illusionist knows, the best hiding places are often in plain sight.

In broad daylight, a high society girl vanishes on a crowded street. Days pass, then weeks; the daring abduction remains an impenetrable mystery, without a ransom note, a single clue, or even public information. The moment young Sherlock reads about it, he knows that it's the case that will make his name.

In 1867, Sherlock Holmes, an impoverished young outcast with a Jewish father and a highborn mother, visits the scene of a woman's brutal murder, where he meets a wrongly accused young Arab and becomes a suspect himself.

Includes an introduction, numerous illustrations, and many marginal notes explaining or commenting on the text.

In London, 1890, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson try to stop the fine arts dealer Edmund Carstairs from being harassed only to find themselves mixed up in murder plots and an international conspiracy linking the worst criminals to the highest levels of government.

Sherlock Holmes is asked to investigate the tale of a hound that haunts the lonely moors around the Baskervilles' ancestral home.

Mary Russell, wife of Sherlock Holmes, investigates the murder of their archeologist friend, Dorothy Ruskin, who had given them an inlaid box with a tattered roll of papyrus inside, supposedly written by Mary Magdalene.