Batgrl: Bookish Hooha

I picked this up in one of those Barnes&Noble sales they have for hardback classics and it's been my go-to copy whenever I need to settle down and reread Holmes. It's not actually complete in the sense of "containing every Holmes story in existence" (I look to ebooks for that), but it does have the Sidney Paget illustrations, which is wildly important - to me, anyway.

The weird part is that the cover of the book claims that it contains A Study in Scarlet - but it doesn't. (The title page and table of contents don't list it.) I can remember being sick in bed (Holmes stories are comfort reads then) and reading this particular edition, and when I'd get to the point where the book was too heavy to hold because I was about to fall asleep I'd look at the cover design and grumble to myself about that. I've noticed that the lack of the story annoys me a lot less when I'm well. [Edited to add: It also says it contains The Sign of Four - which it doesn't. Somehow I didn't miss that one as much as Scarlet, I guess!]

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Contents:

Book One

[The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes]

• "A Scandal in Bohemia"
• "The Red-Headed League"
• "A Case of Identity"
• "The Boscombe Valley Mystery"
• "The Five Orange Pips"
• "The Man with the Twisted Lip"
• "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle"
• "The Adventure of the Speckled Band"
• "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb"
• "The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor"
• "The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet"
• "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches"

[The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes]

• "The Adventure of Silver Blaze"
• "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box"
• "The Adventure of the Yellow Face"
• "The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk"
• "The Adventure of the Gloria Scott"
• "The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual"
• "The Adventure of the Reigate Squire"
• "The Adventure of the Crooked Man"
• "The Adventure of the Resident Patient"
• "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter"
• "The Adventure of the Naval Treaty"
• "The Final Problem"

Book Two

[The Return of Sherlock Holmes]

• "The Adventure of the Empty House"
• "The Adventure of the Norwood Builder"
• "The Adventure of the Dancing Men"
• "The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist"
• "The Adventure of the Priory School"
• "The Adventure of Black Peter"
• "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton"
• "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons"
• "The Adventure of the Three Students"
• "The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez"
• "The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter"
• "The Adventure of the Abbey Grange"
• "The Adventure of the Second Stain"

"The Hound of the Baskervilles"