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Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate Collection
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These stories are fun and quick; I’m glad I read them. This collection consists of four novels plus four books containing 56 short stories, only one or two of which I consider to be duds.
Apparently, Doyle himself was heartily sick of the Holmes stories by the time he completed his third volume, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, in 1894. That book ends with the story “The Final Problem” which was meant to have polished off the genius of Baker Street. This is the excellent tale involving Holmes and Moriarty’s meeting at the maelstrom of the Reichenbach Falls.
The hue and cry over Holmes’ demise were such that Doyle caved in and wrote The Hound of the Baskervilles (my favorite), but he avoided the issue of Holmes’ death by setting this novel prior to “The Final Problem.”
This wasn’t good enough for his reading public, who continued to bay like the Hound itself until he came out with the stories in The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1903-04). The first story, “The Adventure of the Empty House” explains how Holmes cheated death in 1894.
We leave Holmes, after “The Last Bow,” retired at his farm in East Sussex, enjoying his bees. These books are light stuff but a treat, a literary amuse bouche.
Apparently, Doyle himself was heartily sick of the Holmes stories by the time he completed his third volume, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, in 1894. That book ends with the story “The Final Problem” which was meant to have polished off the genius of Baker Street. This is the excellent tale involving Holmes and Moriarty’s meeting at the maelstrom of the Reichenbach Falls.
The hue and cry over Holmes’ demise were such that Doyle caved in and wrote The Hound of the Baskervilles (my favorite), but he avoided the issue of Holmes’ death by setting this novel prior to “The Final Problem.”
This wasn’t good enough for his reading public, who continued to bay like the Hound itself until he came out with the stories in The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1903-04). The first story, “The Adventure of the Empty House” explains how Holmes cheated death in 1894.
We leave Holmes, after “The Last Bow,” retired at his farm in East Sussex, enjoying his bees. These books are light stuff but a treat, a literary amuse bouche.
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