The Extraordinary Cases of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Mass Market Paperback

Published April 1, 2010

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

[Pepi Martinez · Rating 4 out of 5]

Conan Doyle’s adventures with Sherlock and Watson are always an enjoyable read. This compilation of stories is not the best, from my personal opinion, since some of the stories are quite similar and you cannot really get a grasp of other memorable characters such as Lestrade or Moriarty. However, the language and some of the stories are really worth reading, for instance: the Speckled Band, the Musgrave Ritual or the Six Napoleons. The extra pages at the back add some info about Victorian London and the characters of each story. There’s also a glossary that would have been more useful if the words defined there had had some sort of asterisk to refer to them while you are reading the book.

[Tim Strecker · Rating 4 out of 5]

Its interesting and sometimes scary.

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