After reading Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s first set of 12 stories called “adventures,” comes is the second set of 11 stories called “memoirs.” I don’t know why when these stories follow the same pattern and style as those “adventures.” I read that these stories were originally published individually in 1894 in a British magazine, Strand. Maybe, it was just the way of grouping these short stories.

Silver Blaze John Straker tries to drug the horse Silver Blaze so he can bet against him and win a lot More...

Another series of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes as reported by his faithful biographer Dr. Watson and it becomes clearer than ever that the real draw of these stories is the fascinating character of Holmes himself. The mysteries are secondary to the enjoyment, though many of them do prove to have distinct elements of interest (otherwise why would the great detective have bothered himself about them?), but it really is in observing the fascinating character of Holmes himself that the reader i More...

Come and see the Softer Side of Sherlock Holmes! The stories in this collection focus on the revelation that: "Sherlock Holmes! He's Just Like Us!" He makes mistakes! He judges too quickly! He was once young and went to school! He had friends! He has a brother (who is, as Sherlock readily admits, smarter than he is, just without his ambition)!

We (shockingly!) essentially find out that he is a human being. We see Sherlock has a family, and has interests other than things that have to do with his More...

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Giungo in questi afosi ed estivi istanti al completamento della lettura di circa 1/2 del "Canone", termine che identifica l'intera e completa collezione dei romanzi e dei racconti che vedono protagonista l' "autentico" Sherlock Holmes, quello nato dalla penna di sir Arthur Conan Doyle (distinto da quello "apocrifo", generato dalla discutibile creatività di altri scrittori post-Conan Doyle).
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I read this collection of short stories out of curiosity about the Sherlock Holmes of canon. I've seen the RDJ Sherlock Holmes (didn't much like the first film, didn't see the second), the BC Sherlock Holmes (have seen all the BBC eps, but didn't much like them either), and the JLM Sherlock Holmes (am currently watching Elementary, and am a fan...I think).

These stories are my first introduction to the Sherlock Holmes (and Watson) of canon. And you can color me surprised at how poor Sherlock seem More...

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Reichenbach Falls
Switzerland

To Whomever It May Concern,
I write this as an concerned customer. After visiting the famed "Reichenbach Falls" yesterday, (an experience we were told must not be missed) I was greatly disturbed about the safety of the walks leading around the falls. The cliff is a very steep one, and the drop very long - and if one were to fall, he would no doubt come to a nasty end. Since the path is a slippery and treacherous one, (especially in undesirable weather) it would prove More...

This was a surprisingly short volume, and many of the stories were also surprisingly short. Given all the hoopla you hear about Moriarty these days, I was expecting a lot more, and it was fascinating to realize that Moriarty really only comes into one swift story, and the fallout in another swift story (but that's in the next Sherlock book, so I'll stop while I'm ahead.) I did really enjoy getting a better sense of Sherlock's arc as a person--we get to see how he got started on this path, and it More...

I've read the entire Sherlock Holmes canon, however after watching Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows on DVD (I'd also seen the film in the theater last December) I had to re-read "The Final Problem" and "The Empty House", which are still my favorite two Sherlock Holmes stories. However, after re-reading those two stories I still wanted more Holmes to read. Therefore, I re-read "Memoirs".

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes skips around in time, one story has Holmes telling Watson his very first case More...

So, here is the second collection of short stories about the exploits of Sherlock Holmes. They were, of course, awesome. I will say that I did the same as before = split my reading between an ebook version on my phone, and the hardcover with the Sidney Paget illustrations. Both versions have advantages and disadvantages. The biggest difference in this case was that the hardcover followed the original (British) format by including The Cardboard Box, and the ebook (Barnes & Noble's complete tw More...

Continuing on the success of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs offers up some more fantastic classic mysteries but also a few signs of Doyle burning out on the Holmes series.

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is available for free download on Amazon and other sites.

The American version of the Memoirs includes eleven stories:

"Silver Blaze"
"The Adventure of the Yellow Face"
"The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk"
"The Adventure of the Gloria Scott"
"The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual"
"T More...

While I was reading The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, I realized that literature has mutated to an almost unrecognizable concept in the last 120 years (this book was published in 1892 and 1893 in The Strand Magazine). I first found Holmes powers of deduction dubious but as I continued through the eleven cases that made up the volume, it began to become increasingly more irritating. I grew up with Earle Stanley Gardner’s Perry Mason and couldn’t help but compare these two supe More...

I have never been a fan of Sherlock Holmes books. A couple of years ago I recieved a boxset from a relative and first tried to read A Study in Scarlet, but gave up and tried The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, which I found long and dull but forced myself through all the same. Last year, I tried A Sign of Four, which was in some places tedious, but overall an okay book.

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes may just persuade me to just give Conan Doyle another chance.

I was prevented from giving the full More...

I love Sherlock Holmes and own The Complete Sherlock Holmes. I keep a bookmark that tells me how many of the 1,122 pages I've read, and after finishing Memoirs, I'm almost halfway through.

This time I was inspired to read Memoirs after watching Sherlock 2 in the theaters with my husband and him asking me things like, "Did he really fall like that in the book?" and "Was his archenemy really named Moriarty?" (Answers: Sort of yes, and yes.)

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The worst of the Holmes novels, in my view, with several of the stories depending on a very weak premise, which only a total fool would believe, or with Holmes doing very little.

1. "Silver Blaze." In which Holmes finds a missing race horse and solves the murder of its trainer. A solid, technical detective story, with an ingenious solution. But would the police really take a horse’s kick in the head to be a blow from a lead-weighted walking stick?

2. "The Yellow Face." In which Holmes is told of a More...

This is the second set of Sherlock Holmes short stories, eleven in all, that appeared in the Strand magazine and collected in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. I fell in love with the Holmes stories from the first I read for high school--"The Speckled Band" which appears in the first set of shorts, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Pretty much all my favorite Holmes shorts appear in that first volume, but a lot of these are memorable for one reason or the other.

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I can't quite be sure, but I came away from the stories in Memoirs feeling a little bit tired--or, I thought Holmes did. The stories were still hard to put down, and thoroughly enjoyable. Even so, the reader feels that Holmes might grow a bit weary of being the smartest guy in the room. Indeed, some of the crimes don't quite seem equal to his brilliance, although Watson takes pains to tell us that he chronicles stories that illustrate Holmes's method at its best.

In any case, still quite a good r More...

One of the hallmarks of the Sherlock Holmes stories is that they are not actually told from Holmes' point of view. They are told by Dr. Watson in the form of newspaper stories which chronicle his friend's investigations. This is not odd in itself, except that Holmes often leaves Watson behind and hours later returns to recount the adventure's ending to him. This structure is never more fascinating than in the famous "The Final Problem," in which Holmes and Moriaty tumble over Reichenbach Falls. More...

What I learned in reading this collection:

- 'Brain fever' was a thing in Victorian times, apparently? And a lot of people sure seemed to suffer from it (and makes it harder to solve mysteries, obvs). It cropped up just a little too frequently in this one collection of stories, anyway.

- Bit by bit, Holmes gets humanized in these stories (gasp! he makes mistakes!), and is all the better for it.

- Shocked and more than a little disappointed by Moriarty's appearance (followed by his immediate demise More...

Now that Dr. Watson is married, he sees less and less of Sherlock Holmes. However, his former flatmate still calls on him occasionally for assistance in interesting mysteries. In The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Watson and Sherlock encounter a stolen racehorse, an elaborate robbery, secret identities, murder and theft. Watson also finally meets Sherlock’s clever brother Mycroft, hears stories of Sherlock’s first cases and even sees Sherlock outwitted. Watson is also first introduced to Sherlock’s More...

I listened to the radio dramatizations on my iPod at work, and luckily I'm by myself this week -- no coworkers or members of the public within a 5-acre radius -- because I had several unexpected reactions to the stories:

1. A shocked gasp as I realized the Hudson from "The Gloria Scott" may well be the husband of my beloved Mrs. Hudson.
2. Screaming out loud in surprise and joy when Holmes first mentioned Mycroft.
3. Delighted giggling at all the Mycroft fat jokes.
4. Several instances of "Oh, you w More...

My love for all things Sherlock grows with each passing day and with each new story I read in the way of his adventures.
This collection of short stories was, admittedly, not as strong as 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' as far too many of the mysteries went unsolved or just left. The thing I like most about Sherlock Holmes, apart from the elegant way in which the stories are written, is seeing the method in which he unravels clues to solve a crime and I am always dissapointed if that doesn't More...

Sherlock Holmes has been a character that I missed being introduced to as a child. But recently the brilliance of his Science of Deduction has taken me over.

In a very reverse fashion, I watched Sherlock Holmes before I read him. And it has turned out to be an absolutely winning reversal of sequence.
All credit to the newly produced "Sherlock" BBC miniseries which brings out this consulting detective's unique powers of observation and deduction to a level of amazement and wonder.

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I recently finished reading the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes on my Kindle. I have really enjoyed reading the tales of Sherlock Holmes and my dear Watson.

The Memoirs cover nearly a dozen short tales of Sherlock Holmes, in these tales we learn more about Sherlock as a person, his history, his nearly friendless time at University, his family heritage and brother. We also see that Holmes is not by any means perfect at his craft and he gets a case completely wrong.

Besides just being good fun, I have fo More...

OK, so I started reading The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and got suckered into reading The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes since the two books were in the same edition that I had. Urgh! Sherlock Holmes is not my cup of tea to begin with, and I felt compelled to finish the entire book!!

These two books might also be found under the edition called the Complete Sherlock Holmes Vol 1. Let me save you some time if you feel so inclined to read this book! The Memoirs offer more insight into Sherlock Holmes More...

There are eleven stories in the second of the Sherlock Holmes connections, where we see Doyle expanding the fictional universe: we have a couple of accounts of Holmes' adventures before he met Watson, we have Mycroft and the relationship with the French painter Vernet, we have the recovery of a treaty lost by the Foreign Secretary's nephew, and most of all we have Moriarty. The best of these is the first, "Silver Blaze", which is the one about the missing race-horse with the original curious inc More...

I decided to sneak in another Sherlock Holmes book before the month ended for the book club. I read this on the heels of Adventures. Interestingly, I really thought I was going to read a novel last time. Instead I got short stories. After my initial disappointment, I got into them. I looked forward to these short stories too. It's becoming evident that the Sherlock Holmes that everyone thinks of comes from these stories.

I found the stories here inconsistent. "The Adventure of the Yellow Face" an More...

The first 4-5 stories i thought this collection was not as consistently great as The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes collection i read before it. What i liked in this collection that was different from that collection is that several of the stories dealt with how flawed Holmes was in his detection,cases. If he didnt have enough facts,evidence he wasnt a brilliant detective. If he wasnt quick the criminals might get away forever from the police,justice.

The best stories who made the collection strong More...