The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes' fame has also brought him notoriety and there are those in the criminal underworld who must move against him or find their schemes in ruins ... And it is in 'The Final Problem' that Dr Watson has the sad task of telling the grisly, fatal and shocking tale that saw Holmes finally...
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Sherlock Holmes' fame has also brought him notoriety and there are those in the criminal underworld who must move against him or find their schemes in ruins ... And it is in 'The Final Problem' that Dr Watson has the sad task of telling the grisly, fatal and shocking tale that saw Holmes finally meet his match.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780141035437 (0141035439)
Publish date: March 6th 2008
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 307
Edition language: English
In a way I’m not entirely sure how I should approach this book, particularly since I generally don’t review short story collections as a whole but rather each story on its merits. Mind you, that is probably going to cause a little bit of a problem when I get around to reading the Collected Tales of ...
--Silver Blaze--The Yellow Face--The Stockbroker's Clerk--The 'Gloria Scott'--The Musgrave Ritual--The Reigate Squires--The Crooked Man--The Resident Patient--The Greek Interpreter--The Naval Treaty--The Final Problem
When I hear the name Sherlock Holmes I don't think of Robert Downey Jr or Benedict Cumberbatch. My Sherlock Holmes is and will forever be Jeremy Brett in the 80's adaptations of Arthur Conan Doyle's books. This explains why reading The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes felt like walking down a memory lan...
I'm really relieved that there are more books, but I still feel like someone punched me in the stomach after reading the last 2 pages.
This is the second set of Sherlock Holmes short stories, eleven in all, that appeared in the Strand magazine and collected in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. I fell in love with the Holmes stories from the first I read for high school--"The Speckled Band" which appears in the first set of shorts, Th...
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