The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is another collection of Sherlock Holme stories originally printed in the Strand. Like the first collection of stories this contained some really good stories, some ok stories and some indifferent stories.

I would'nt say that there is a bad story in the collection, but that there were some that I enoyed more than others. My favourite story in this collection was the final story The Final Problem in which Holmes appears to die at the conclusion of the story. I felt that this story epitomised everything that was good about the characters and was quite moving, especially the last few paragraphs.

I also really enjoyed The Silver Blaze a story that started off with a murder and a missing racehorse. The Greek Interpreter was quite good and had some peril in for the characters involved and we finally got to meet Myrcroft Holmes, Sherlock Holmes smarter, older, lazier brother.

The Yellow Face was quite an interesting story and actually found Holmes proved wrong, which really does make it stand out as well as its quite progressive stance on racism considering the casual racism showed in Sign of Four.

The Gloria Scott is an interesting story as it is Sherlock Holmes very first case as a consulting detective, for that reason more than any other though.

I would have to say that as a collection this was not quite as strong as The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and didn't for me have as many memorable stories.

A few of these stories were rather unforgettable (The Adventure of the Stockbroker’s Clerk was a virtual rewrite of The Red Headed League from the The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and not half as good and neither The Resident Patient nor The Crooked Man gripped me) and will not be ones that I will be revisiting any time soon.