Cover of The Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Adventure of Black Peter / Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton / Adventure of the Beryl Coronet / Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb / Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez / Adventure of the Priory School / Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist / Red-Headed League)
Victorian Mysteries

The Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Adventure of Black Peter / Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton / Adventure of the Beryl Coronet / Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb / Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez / Adventure of the Priory School / Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist / Red-Headed League)

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  • 1990 first published
  • 266 pages
  • 5 editions
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Arthur Conan Doyle's The Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Adventure of Black Peter / Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton / Adventure of the Beryl Coronet / Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb / Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez / Adventure of the Priory School / Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist / Red-Headed League) (1990) is a Victorian mystery novel. It takes readers to London and Farnham in 1894–1901. Characters include Sherlock Holmes, John H. Watson and Violet Smith. It deals with detectives, private investigators, Intestacy and Defrocking.

5 Open Library readers have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 5 editions.

It runs to roughly 266 pages — 4–5 hours of reading at an average pace.

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Setting

Era

Characters

Subjects

  • Detective and mystery stories
  • Detective and mystery fiction
  • Crime stories
  • Detectives
  • English detective and mystery stories
  • Private investigators
  • Mystery and detective stories
  • Intestacy
  • Defrocking
  • Detective fiction
  • Blackmail
  • Plumbers
  • Burglary
  • Pince-nez glasses
  • Egyptian cigarettes
  • Russians

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Who wrote The Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Adventure of Black Peter / Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton / Adventure of the Beryl Coronet / Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb / Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez / Adventure of the Priory School / Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist / Red-Headed League)?

The Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Adventure of Black Peter / Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton / Adventure of the Beryl Coronet / Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb / Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez / Adventure of the Priory School / Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist / Red-Headed League) was written by Arthur Conan Doyle and first published in 1990.

What genre is The Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Adventure of Black Peter / Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton / Adventure of the Beryl Coronet / Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb / Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez / Adventure of the Priory School / Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist / Red-Headed League)?

It is usually shelved as Victorian Mysteries.

How long is The Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Adventure of Black Peter / Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton / Adventure of the Beryl Coronet / Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb / Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez / Adventure of the Priory School / Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist / Red-Headed League)?

The median edition has 266 pages, about 4–5 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

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Readers who like it often enjoy The Star of India, The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures and The Game Is Afoot.

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