Kirsten's review
The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Kirsten's review
The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle
Kirsten's review
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This is THE definative set for fans of Sherlock Holmes. There's loads of great footnotes here, detailing aspects of Victorian culture and discussing the links between the stories. It doesn't take itself overly seriously, though -- there's some amusing stuff about possible errors in the manuscript, discontinuities (for example, Watson's wandering war wound), and unlikely but interesting possible connections between the characters. The whole thing's also liberally illustrated, with Sidney Paget's illustrations of course, but also with illustrations from various other magazines and newspapers that serialized the stories. I just can't recommend this enough.
