The Best of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twenty of the very best tales from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle"s fifty-six short stories featuring the arch-sleuth. Basing his selection around the author"s own twelve personal favourites, David Stuart Davies has added a further eight sparkling stories to Conan Doyle"s " Baker Street Dozen", creating a unique volume which distils the pure essence of the world"s most famous detective.