Classics Illustrated #37

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's celebrated mystery gets the Classics Illustrated treatment in this handsome 2012 edition from Classic Comic Store. The cover painting sets the scene vividly: a deerstalker-capped detective crouches with magnifying glass in hand, examining a prone figure, while a uniformed constable and a stout man in a grey suit look on — all beneath the cryptic word "RACHE" scrawled in red on the wall behind them. It's a wonderfully atmospheric introduction to one of literature's great puzzle stories, available for just £3.99.