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It makes me very pleased to be able to say I've read all of Sherlock Holmes. Thank goodness for these awesome classics collections.

I found myself really interested in what changes I'd encounter in this volume, especially after reading the warning in the introduction. Indeed. Sherlock Holmes seemed to have changed in some subtle and not-so-subtle ways, but I think that tends to happen, especially when a writer gets downright tired of the protagonist.

While it's likely that none of the stories will become my favorites (and not a huge fan of The Valley of Fear), I very much liked reading this collection. I was looking forward to reading the stories that Holmes himself narrated, and I couldn't help but be amused that Holmes saw that he needed to use Watson's format in order to keep the tale accessible to readers. I was expecting the writing to be a bit more esoteric, but all the same, I'm glad it wasn't.

I feel a bit off in that I didn't really care much for the parodies at the end, and the essays were interesting to be from Doyle's own writing, though the material is sufficiently covered in the introduction.

All in all, this was a great read, and I'm so glad I took on this task.

misskitty14's review

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Not a fan of this style of detective; information is withheld from the reader in order to demonstrate the skills of the detective.

sathyadgs95's review against another edition

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5.0

Opulent complete work. I bought both Volume 1 and Volume 2 and between them, they include all 56 short stories as well as the 4 major novellas. Just classically beautiful. No matter where you read these books, you immediately feel transported into the foggy streets of London. Simple yet robust paperback books that you like to have with you and want to read again and again. Its very nice set and I recommend them both to be given as a gift to younger people that haven't the Sherlock Holes stories before.