The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
This was a collection of short stories that included:
A Scandal in Bohemia
The Red-Headed League
A Case of Identity
The Boscombe Valley Mystery
The Five Orange Pips
The Man with the Twisted Lip
The Blue Carbuncle
The Speckled Band
The Engineer's Thumb
The Noble Bachelor
The Beryl Coronet
The Copper Beeches
These were all in the same sort of style seen in the previous two Sherlock Holmes stories I read in this collection. I still find the Scooby Doo confessions to be pretty unrealistic and funny, but the repetitive nature is a little tiring after awhile. I still think A Study in Scarlett was the best of all of them, so far. "The Copper Beeches" was probably the best story this time around. It was suspenseful and far more mysterious than the others. I liked how Watson, who was married in The Sign of the Four, was disappointed that Holmes wasn't interested in the female client after the mystery was solved. Also interesting was Holmes's nitpicking at Watson's tellings of Holmes's cases, and which ones were being chosen. Nice to see him being sometimes ornery.
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