Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes Oxford World's Classic Doyle, A. C. [paperback

In The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes we read the last twelve stories
Conan Doyle was to write about Holmes and Watson. They reflect the
disillusioned world of the 1920s in which they were written, and he
can be seen to take advantage of new, more open conventions in
fiction. Suicide as a murder weapon and homosexual incest are some
of the psychological tragedies whose consequences are unravelled by
the mind of Holmes before the eyes of Watson. That said, the
collection also includes some of the best turns of wit in the
series, and indeed in the whole of English literature. The editor
of this volume, W.W. Robson, is Emeritus David Masson, Professor of
English Literature at the University of Edinburgh and the author of
Modern English Literature. The general editor of the Oxford
Sherlock Holmes, Owen Dudley Edwards, is Reader in History at the
University of Edinburgh and author of The Quest for Sherlock
Holmes. A Biographical Study of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.