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This collection of Holmes short stories is a very academic one, and Edwards (the editor) spends a lot of time in the end notes documenting specific words that Conan Doyle used in various editions of the stories, as well as historical facts and people Holmes might've been alluding to in each story. I think I would've enjoyed the stories more if I'd read them without referring to the end notes at all, but I'm not disciplined enough to do that -- I keep wondering whether there's something there tha
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This is a short story collection of the last stories penned by Arthur Conan Doyle. Most of them were pretty good. I enjoyed all but the last one it seemed a bit rushed.
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Linda Miller
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