The Great Stories of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

From the supernatural terror of The Hound of The Baskervilles, here, reproduced in full, to the history of a murderous revenge spanning two continents - A Study in Scarlet - this is a vintage collection from the casebooks of the detective genius of 221B Baker Street.

As well as 2 complete novels, here are over 20 stories where Sherlock Holmes' legendary powers of deduction are displayed to the full. In famous cases such as 'The Speckled Band', 'The Five Orange Pips', 'The Musgrave Ritual' and his confrontation with the most evil and cunning criminal of them all in 'The Final Problem', Holmes brings the darkest villains of the underworld to justice.

589 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1993

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

[Yong Yao Loh · Rating 5 out of 5]

As a big fan of detective novels, I am somewhat ashamed that I have only just read my first installments of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes at the ripe old age of 30. In any case, I think the stories have stood the test of time, and I would like to imagine that I was every bit as enraptured by Holmes and Watson as the Brits were back in the late 1800s. Of the short stories, I think my favourites were "The Five Orange Pips", "The Man With The Twisted Lip" and "Silver Blaze". Otherwise, I really enjoyed the two longer stories "A Study in Scarlet" and "The Hound of the Baskervilles" too, especially the latter! Looking forward to reading more of Sherlock and Watson in the future!

P.S. I think the Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman tv adaptation of Sherlock does stay pretty consistent to the original stories in terms of characterization.