I have been on a Sherlock Holmes spree for the past couple of weeks. I have watched probably 10 movies and am in the process of reading every story that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ever wrote about Holmes. While Holmes (almost) always solves his case, the stories never seem to grow monotonous. Sir Art...
This was the first of the Sherlock Holmes books available through Amazon. It is a series of short stories, and begins in the middle of the Holmes/Watson relationship. I wanted to begin at the beginning, so stopped after about the third of the ?? stories in this collection and switched to A Study in ...
I just can't remember my reaction after reading the complete collection years ago, so the low score is coloured by lack of a strong memory, coupled with the really hilarious stories of Doyle -- who was a medical doctor by training -- and his gullibility when it came to the Victorian craze of followi...
I didn't realize what a long break I took from reading Sherlock....Not a bad collection here, includes some of the most famous stories: "A Scandal in Bohemia" (Wishbone!, so many khaki baseball caps), "The Five Orange Pips", and "The Speckled Band". No truly dud stories, some really creative ones su...
Gotta love the old-school dash!Arthur Conan Doyle created such an intriguing vehicle for his mystery stories in the figure of Sherlock Holmes, a man almost inhuman, nearly robotic in his exacting speech and actions, so much so that the reader longs for and grasps on to the minute human aspects (a hi...
It was good. quite good actually, even though i am not usually interested in thriller or detective stories. But i had to read Sherlock Holmes.A few stories are somewhat lackadaisical. A few have too abrupt an ending. esp the famous ones, like A Scandal in Bohemia. And I don't understand what is the ...
This is probably one of the best gifts my sibling have given me so far:D I just love Holmes, and I feel sorry the movies fail to portray the charm of the books.
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