The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle Reviews

I don’t know if anyone knows the rest of that joke. I have a feeling that perhaps no one does. The crime-busting duo created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (though he wasn’t a sir in those days) set the template for every one thereafter, and ‘The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ is the original collection of the first twelve Holmes short ...

To discuss and review the Sherlock Holmes canon in its entirity feels almost pointless as the books have become so universally known that, for example, a large proportion of the English population can identify the lead character from a silhouette (in some cases even if they have not read the books). Given that the stories were written (in part) ...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a hugely entertaining and totally absorbing book which covers twelve of Sherlock Holmes' investigations originally published in The Strand magazine. Holmes adventures are fascinating, revealing as they do the dark underbelly of Victorian society and many of them would create lurid headlines were ...

I don't know how i managed to get this far through life without ever having read a Sherlock Holmes Story! anyway, I decided to give them a go and i was surprised at how easy they were to read... they slipped down really well with a cup of tea at bedtime! The adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of about 9 stories each about ...

It's been several years since I read the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, collected in three separate volumes each costing a pound. It works out at a very cheap way to get a lot of stories, admitedly in my copies they're reproductions from the originals in Strand Magazine, which means that the print is very fine and can be hard to read. ...

I’ve read a number of Sherlock Home’s adventures. They can be obtained from any number of cheapo bookshops in three volumes (Adventures, Return and Casebook) for about a fiver each. The first volume contains the longer stories “Study in Scarlet” and “Sign of Four” before moving onto the more usual short stories ...

A few months ago, I went out and bought the complete works of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. £7.99 reduced from £30 odd quid. What a bargain!!! I am not even half way through this bargain purchase as Doyle was such a prolific writer, but of the stories I have read so far I have been very impressed. Like Mr Creek, ...