title: Sherlock Holmes: The Novels: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
description: Every writer owes something to Holmes.<br />T. S. Eliot<br /><br />[Holmes] is probably the only literary creation since the creations of Dickens which has really passed into the life and language of the people.<br />G. K. Chesterton  <b>T.S. Eliot</b>
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  [Begin Reading](part0004.html#Chapter1)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Table of Contents](part0075.html)
  
  
  [Newsletters](part0074.html#Appendix1)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Copyright Page](part0076.html#Copyright2)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Grateful acknowledgment to Conan Doyle Estate Ltd. for permission to use the
  Sherlock Holmes characters created by the late  
  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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