Cases of Sherlock Holmes, #4

by Arthur Conan Doyle, Dan Day

The adventure of the speckled band --The red-headed league --The adventure of the six Napoleons --The adventure of the empty house.

Comic

First published December 1, 1962

About the author

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a Scottish writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones in the field of crime fiction.

Doyle was a prolific writer. In addition to the Holmes stories, his works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger, and humorous stories about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels. One of Doyle's early short stories, "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" (1884), helped to popularise the mystery of the brigantine Mary Celeste, found drifting at sea with no crew member aboard.

Reviews

[Alex Budris · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not even quite an adaptation - because the original text is all there, verbatim - but this rendition of 'The Adventure of the Six Napoleons' (illustrated here by Dan Day) is a welcome change of style from all the other comics I read. Namely, this is classic literature. The 'letters' column features erudite missives from Sherlockian afficianados, and as an appendix there is a multiple-installment biography of Sir A. C. Doyle. Classy.

[Hannah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Every so often, i delight in reading books from my childhood. Found this on the shelf as I was cleaning the other day and picked it up. It was such fun re-reading these old mysteries. Holmes, as usual, never fails to solve the most bizarre of crimes. I remembered the Speckled Ban but the Adventure of the Six Napoleons was new to me. (Or maybe I just read it so long ago that I'd entirely forgotten it.) Examine peoples' hands and you, too, may be able to tell a lot about a person.