![]() ![]() “As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. Many mysteries in contemporary film and book have been influenced in some manner by Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. Doyle really sets the bar and precedent for the detective genre with Holmes as his lead. What this collection offers is a great look into the character of Holmes as a master of solving what seems to be the unsolvable: puzzling crimes, murders, mistaken identities and generally mysterious circumstances. The first story in the collection, “A Scandal in Bohemia,” is the story that made Holmes and his creator a household name. ![]() ![]() The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes collects the first twelve Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in The Strand magazine throughout 1891-1892. Although Holmes gained a reputation for infallibility, Conan Doyle showed his own realism and feminism by having the great detective defeated by Irene Adler – the woman – in the very first story, ‘A Scandal in Bohemia’ The detective is at the height of his powers and the volume is full of famous cases, including ‘The Red-Headed League’, ‘The Blue Carbuncle’, and ‘The Speckled Band’. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand magazine, in which they were first published, and won immense popularity for Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. John Watson, Inspector Lestrade, Irene Adlerįollowed by: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmesīook Review: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ![]()
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