Doyle, Arthur Conan

A party from England--two professors, a nobleman, and a journalist--set out to explore a plateau in South America where prehistoric animals and ancestral hominids are very much alive. Includes explanatory notes and an introduction by novelist Michael Crichton.

Presents eight unabridged Sherlock Holmes detective stories, featuring such characters as Irene Adler, the only woman to ever beat Holmes at his game, and the evil Professor Moriarty.

Sherlock Holmes comes to the aid of a client whose sister's last words before she died were, "It was the speckled band.".