The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: A Scandal in Bohemia, The Adventure of the Red-Headed League, Case of Identity, Boscombe Valley Mystery, Five Orange Pips, Man With the Twisted Lip, Blue Carbuncle, Speckled Band, Engineer's Thumb, Noble Bachelor and Mor

These are the first of the Sherlock Holmes short stories, originally published as single stories in the Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June 1892. The book was published in England on 14 October 1892 by George Newnes Ltd and in a US Edition on 15 October by Harper. The initial combined print run was 14,500 copies. The book was banned in the Soviet Union in 1929 for the occultism of its author, although the book shows few to no signs of such material. Later, the embargo was lifted. A delight for a public which enjoys incident, mystery, and above all that matching of the wits of a clever man against the dumb resistance of the secrecy of inanimate things, which results in the triumph of the human intelligence.