The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Hardcover, 240 pages

Published Oct. 1, 2015 by Engage Books.

ISBN:
978-1-77226-169-1
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, first published on 14 October 1892. It contains the earliest short stories featuring the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, which had been published in twelve monthly issues of The Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June 1892. The stories are collected in the same sequence, which is not supported by any fictional chronology. The only characters common to all twelve are Holmes and Dr. Watson and all are related in first-person narrative from Watson's point of view.

Contains: Scandal in Bohemia Red-headed League Case of Identity Boscombe Valley Mystery Five Orange Pips Man with the Twisted Lip Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle Adventure of the Speckled Band Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb Adventure of the Noble Bachelor Adventure of the Beryl Coronet Adventure of the Copper Beeches

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I have a dim memory of reading this book when I was younger, but since then I’ve seen Sherlock Holmes in countless adaptations: movies, TV shows, comics, video games, and more. Some good, some bad.

And so, I was afraid that these stories would stick to a formula: someone brings Holmes a case; he impresses everyone by noticing impossible details and drawing strained conclusions; insults Watson for not being preternaturally observant; insults Inspector Lestrade for being an idiot; notices that one of the ashes in the fireplace is actually not only from tobacco, but produced by Javanese cigars, and thus the murderer must be blah-de-blah yadda yadda lock ‘em up, the end.

So I was glad to see that they don’t. There’s a good amount of variety: Holmes shows up the police (of course); Holmes falls in love; the mystery is not a crime; a locked-door murder outdoors; and more. …

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