The new paperback series- Penguin English Library

‘He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson … He sits motionless, like a spider in the centre of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them’

Sherlock Holmes, scourge of criminals everywhere, whether they be lurking in London’s foggy backstreets or plotting behind the walls of an idyllic country mansion, and his faithful colleague Dr Watson solve these breathtaking and perplexing mysteries. In The Five Orange Pips and Other Cases we encounter some of his most famous and devilishly difficult problems.