

In a hospital laboratory, Watson meets his potential new roommate for the first time. By his own account, he leads a meaningless existence in London until a chance encounter with an old friend brings news of comfortable lodgings on Baker Street. John Watson is sent home from the second Afghan war with a small income and nothing to do but recover his health. Shot in the shoulder and brought to death’s door by typhoid fever, Dr. The astonishing debut of Sherlock Holmes and his partner in detection, Dr. Illustrations by Greg Spalenka with an Afterword by G.K. Included is the 4-page Publisher's insert. This volume published in 1986 contains two of Sir Arthur Conan's complete classic detective novels, A Study In Scarlet (1887) and The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902). World's Best Reading is a series of classic books published by Readers Digest beginning in 1982.
