Sherlock Holmes Reader

by Arthur Conan Doyle

The "Gloria Scott"
A scandal in Bohemia
The red-headed league
The five orange pips
The adventure of the speckled band
The final problem
The adventure of the empty house
The adventure of the dancing men.

Genres: Classics, Mystery, Fiction

224 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1975

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

[Nikki]

There were several short stories within this book making it easy to read a little at a time. Sherlock Holmes and his methods are very intriguing!

[Cassa]

I wish there was something between "read" and "currently-reading". It seems this will be on my "currently-reading" shelf forever; there are so many short stories and at least two full novels. My comments on "The Sign of Four" pretty much still stand with this book; I can only take so much Holmes at a time, and so I wonder if I'll ever finish this book.

I watched the Wishbone episode for "Hound of the Baskervilles". Does that count?

[Ashley]

I love Holmes, so I'll always give a collection at least four stars for his writing alone. The commentary here is far superior to the Barnes and Noble complete Holmes, but I would have liked to have seen the complete essays by Christopher Clausen and Doyle himself included here in their entirety rather than as excerpts and slapped with the generic title of "Essay." Not sure why they were excerpted the way they were.

[Benjh13]

Sherlock Holmes is one of the most famous detectives but unfortunately he is not real. i thought he was real and would always wonder how he made his deductions so accurately and fast.

[Kalvin Schreiner]

Good book but very lengthy, took me a while to finish