Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by Edvard Munch, George Morland and Théodore Géricault. The Regency prize ring: a Sussex boy goes up to London with his uncle, a Corinthian of the first water, and finds bare-knuckle fighting, gambling, Brighton, the Prince of Wales — and a murder in a locked house. Conan Doyle modelled Holmes on his old professor and considered his historical novels his real work; the fight in this one is the best account of the prize ring in English fiction, and the boxing men agreed. Fifty-seven plates, from Rowlandson's street brawls to Lawrence's portraits, catch the Regency world of pugilists, bucks and boys that Rodney Stone moves through.