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A stranger arrives in a Russian backwater community with a bizarre proposition for the local landowners: cash for their &quot;dead souls.&quot; <br/>&quot;He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the census, saving their owners from paying tax on them, and to use these 'souls' as collateral to re-invent himself as a gentleman. In this ebullient masterpiece, Gogol created a grotesque gallery of human types, from the bear-like Sobakevich to the insubstantial fool Manilov, and, above all, the devilish con man Chichikov.&quot;

A Scandal in Bohemia<br/>II. The Red-headed League<br/>III. A Case of Identity<br/>IV. The Boscombe Valley Mystery<br/>V. The Five Orange Pips<br/>VI. The Man with the Twisted Lip<br/>VII. The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle<br/>VIII. The Adventure of the Speckled Band<br/>IX. The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb<br/>X. The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor<br/>XI. The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet<br/>XII. The Adventure of the Copper Beeches