![]() ![]() I read them in two fat volumes my father gave me, which include facsimiles of Sidney Paget's wondrously atmospheric illustrations from Strand magazine. The Sherlock Holmes stories were the first adult books I read, and I often return to them now for good, plain writing and for the comfort of puzzles solved. Something tells me that it won't be Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard. A name has been written in blood on a wall. A man's body is found without a scratch on it. Encouraged by the response, they've now gone further back to A Study in Scarlet, the great detective's very first adventure. These two first tackled the third Holmes novel, The Hound of the Baskervilles, which came out last year. It is also in the middle of publishing a series of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, adapted for the form by INJ Culbard (pictures) and Ian Edginton (words). Titles include Crime and Punishment, The Trial and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. ![]() S elfMadeHero is a brilliant young independent publishing company which specialises in graphic novel versions of the classics. ![]()
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