"The Complete Sherlock Holmes" comprises four novels and fifty-six short stories revolving around the world's most popular and influential fictional detective-the eccentric, arrogant, and ingenious Sherlock Holmes. He and his trusted friend, Dr. Watson, step from Holmes's comfortable quarters at 221b Baker Street into the swirling fog of Victorian London to exercise that unique combination of detailed observation, vast knowledge, and brilliant deduction....

The sign of four: When an Englishwoman receives mysterious gifts of pearls and a letter promising to right wrongs done to her, she calls upon Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to investigate. The red-headed league: An office filled with red-headed clerks is suddenly closed, and Holmes is asked to investigate a most unusual series of events.

"When Miss Mary Sutherland is left standing at the altar by Mr. Hosmer Angel, her betrothed, she is certain he has fallen in harms way. With a promise of payment from her future inheritance, Miss Sutherland hires the great detective Sherlock Holmes to discover where her fiancé has disappeared to. Was Mr. Angel the victim of a harmful crime or has the true victim not yet been discovered?" -- container.