福尔摩斯探案全集之档案簿

　　英国侦探小说鼻祖无人不晓的悬疑经典
　　历经百年，畅销不衰
　　英文原版，经典呈现
　　感受英语阅读的神韵，提升英语阅读能力
　　裸脊装帧，让读书体验再升级
　　《福尔摩斯探案全集》布局独具匠心，情节悬念迭起，叙事手法精妙独特，
语言凝练优美，是每一个推理迷的案头书籍。
 
　　《福尔摩斯探案全集之档案簿》是福尔摩斯系列的后一本短篇小说集，
共收录了后发表的十二篇福尔摩斯探案故事，精彩绝伦，风靡全世界。

　　《福尔摩斯探案全集之档案簿》是英国著名推理小说家阿瑟•柯南•道尔于1927年出版的短篇小说集，这是福尔摩斯系列的后一本短篇小说集，共收录《显赫的顾客探案》《苍白的士兵探案》《蓝宝石探案》《三面人形墙探案》等12个短篇故事。这些故事推理引人入胜，情节跌宕起伏，人物形象生动鲜明，具有极高的可读性。

　　阿瑟•柯南•道尔（Arthur Conan Doyle，1859—1930），英国杰出的侦探小说家、剧作家，堪称侦探悬疑小说的鼻祖，被誉为“英国侦探小说之父”。他因成功塑造了侦探人物――夏洛克•福尔摩斯而成为侦探小说历史上重要的小说家之一。代表作品有“福尔摩斯探案全集系列”等。

Preface
The Adventure of the Illustrious Client. 
The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier
The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone
The Adventure of the Three Gables
The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire
The Adventure of the Three Garridebs.
The Problem of Thor Bridge
The Adventure of the Creeping Man
The Adventure of the Lion’s Mane
The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger
The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place
The Adventure of the Retired Colourman

　　1. 和柯南•道尔所写的《福尔摩斯探案全集》相比，没有任何侦探小说曾享有那么高的声誉。                         　　——英国著名小说家 毛姆                                                                                            

　　2. 英国皇家化学协会授予福尔摩斯荣誉院士的称号，表彰他在文学中对司法科学和分析化学的杰出运用。     　　——英国皇家化学协会

　　I fear that Mr. Sherlock Holmes may become like one of those popular tenors who, having outlived their time, are still tempted to make repeated farewell bows to their indulgent audiences. This must cease and he must go the way of all flesh, material or imaginary. One likes to think that there is some fantastic limbo for the children of imagination, some strange, impossible place where the beaux of Fielding may still make love to the belles of Richardson, where Scott’s heroes still may strut, Dickens’s delightful Cockneys still raise a laugh, and Thackeray’s worldlings continue to carry on their reprehensible careers. Perhaps in some humble corner of such a Valhalla, Sherlock and his Watson may for a time find a place, while some more astute sleuth with some even less astute comrade may fill the stage which they have vacated.
　　His career has been a long one—though it is possible to exaggerate it; decrepit gentlemen who approach me and declare that his adventures formed the reading of their boyhood do not meet the response from me which they seem to expect. One is not anxious to have one’s personal dates handled so unkindly. As a matter of cold fact, Holmes made his début in A Study in Scarlet and in The Sign of Four, two small booklets which appeared between 1887 and 1889. It was in 1891 that “A Scandal in Bohemia,” the first of the long series of short stories, appeared in The Strand Magazine. The public seemed appreciative and desirous of more, so that from that date, thirty-nine years ago, they have been produced in a broken series which now contains no fewer than fifty-six stories, republished in The Adventures, The Memoirs, The Return, and His Last Bow, and there remain these twelve published during the last few years which are here produced under the title of The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes. He began his adventures in the very heart of the later Victorian era, carried it through the all-too-short reign of Edward, and has managed to hold his own little niche even in these feverish days. Thus it would be true to say that those who first read of him, as young men, have lived to see their own grown-up children following the same adventures in the same magazine. It is a striking example of the patience and loyalty of the British public.