This collection brings together some of Sherlock Holmes earliest cases which appeared in the Strand magazine in 1892 and 1893. The stories here take place the now-familiar Holmsian stomping ground: the foggy streets of London, the docks, the cocaine dens, and the new suburbs as Holmes and Dr Watson grapple with the extremes of treachery, duplicity and evil. Together they solve some of their most intriguing cases including 'The Speckled Band', 'The Scandal in Bohemia', 'The Silver Blaze', and 'The Final Problem'.