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The Adventures of Sherlock HolmesOn the coverReflections on the Thames, Westminster, John Atkinson Grimshaw, 1880
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
A brilliant, restless consulting detective and his steadfast friend Dr Watson take twelve cases through the fog of gaslit London, the stories that invented the modern detective and the art of deduction.
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The blueprint for every detective since, short, addictive, and endlessly clever. You can read one on a train and feel the click of a perfectly sprung trap.
Setting1880s–1890s · London
Late-Victorian London: hansom cabs and telegrams, fog and respectability, an empire’s capital where a single overlooked detail can unravel a fortune or a crime.