Les aventures de Sherlock Holmes (1892)

Includes: A scandal in Bohemia; The Red-headed League; The five orange pips; The blue caruncle; The speckled band; The beryl coronet; The hound of the Baskervilles.

Las aventuras de Sherlock Holmes es una colección de doce cuentos escritos por Arthur Conan Doyle, en los que el personaje principal es el detective de ficción Sherlock Holmes.
7 de los 12 cuentos.

I have been re-reading the whole Holmes canon and this is the third installment. While I enjoyed A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four very much, I feel that this is where Doyle really got a handle on these characters and the way to tell these stories. It may well be that Holmes and Watson are better suited to the short story format than the novel/novella format.

I thoroughly enjoyed this collection of very different stories, ranging from a rather light hearted jilted lover mystery that introduces Holmes to one of the few people to ever best him, to a dark and deadly entanglement with the KKK in which Holmes can be said to cross a line by threatening his adversary with death. What happens? Read the stories. They are fantastic. Every one of them clever and varied and every one with a master's touch.

I also must praise this edition. If you are going to e-read this then get the Top 5 edition. It is very well done with lots of original illustrations that made the stories even more fun to read. If buying a stand alone e-book, I would get no other edition. ( )

I'm not sure that I'd ever actually read this book all the way through as some of the cases were not familiar to me, which made it quite an exciting prospect for me.

It proved to be yet another excellent installment in the Sherlock Holmes series. ( )

I'm not sure that I'd ever actually read this book all the way through as some of the cases were not familiar to me, which made it quite an exciting prospect for me.

It proved to be yet another excellent installment in the Sherlock Holmes series. ( )