Product Description: This book contains all the investigations and adventures of the world's most popular detective, Sherlock Holmes. From "The Adventure of the Gloria Scott" to "His Last Bow", we follow the illustrious career of this quintessential British hero from his university days to his final case. His efforts to uncover the truth take him all over the world and into conflict with all manner of devious criminals and dangerous villains, but thankfully his legendary powers of deduction, and his faithful companion Dr. Watson, are more than up to the challenge.
Amazon.com Review: This volume, authorized by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's estate, contains all 4 full-length novels and all 56 short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes. At over a thousand pages, the weighty tome is a perfect gift for budding amateur sleuths, and it is an ideal companion for a long stay on a desert island (or a leisurely trip through the English countryside). As the reader wades past the tense introductions of A Study in Scarlet and moves towards such classic tales as The Hound of the Baskervilles, "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," and "The Final Problem," she is sure to draw her own conclusions about Holmes's veiled past and his quirky relationship with his "Boswell," Watson. Doyle never revealed much about Holmes's early life, but the joy of reading the complete Holmes is assembling the trivia of each story into something like a portrait of the detective and his creator. By the end of the long journey through London and across Europe (with a long stopover at Reichenbach Falls), one is apt to have found a friend for life. --Patrick O'Kelley
Sherlock Sherlock Holmes is captivating. Jeremy Brett was also superb in his role as the Detective and both David Burke and Edward Hardwick were also superb and distinctive in their roles as Dr. Watson. I think because of their dedication to this work of production, the book and episodes come as close as possible to each other.
Best Sherlock Holmes for the Kindle If you are looking for Sherlock Holmes on the Kindle, get this one.
It was prepared with care -- the quotation marks are real typesetter's quotes, the dashes are proper em dashes, and it does justice to the excellent text. I've tried several Kindle editions of Sherlock Holmes books, and the majority of them look like they were done on a typewriter. The Kindle is capable of much better. Get this one.
The Complete Sherlock Holmes I am deeply satisfied with my purchase. Its is a great edition for those who want to have all 52 short stories and all four full length novels in one lightweight book. I have no problem bringing it anywhere with me, so it is always available to break out and enjoy one of the Holmes Stories. I recommend it if you are a fan of the series and want to have on work that gives you access to all the stories.
Kindle-Specific Review - AGB This is a Kindle-specific review by AGB.
Value for money: an excellent discount set (but with a few faults) of one of the classics of literature: the 4 long novels and the 5 volumes of short stories.
Presentation and Format: clean and attractive, with the text set fully justified..
Cover etc.: there's a simple, attractive cover, though no further illustrations.
Opening Linked Table of Contents: there's a full Linked ToC to either the beginning of each of the novels, or each of the short stories. There's an error in the ToC of Volume 6, "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" - avid readers will be surprised at the inclusion of a hitherto unknown Holmes story, "Murder in Westminster"! This is in fact simply the second half of the previous, correct story, "The Adventure of the Second Stain" ("Murder...." is a newspaper headline included in the text of the story...). (Note: the "Linked ToC" enables you skip to predetermined points in the file - individual books, chapter openings etc. Without a good one, a long or very technical work can be tiresome to navigate on the Kindle.)
Metadata ("Metadata" refers to some hidden coding that publishers insert into the text file to enable Kindle to list and display correctly the essentials of the book - Author, Title etc. Kindle owners are able to correct indexing errors - which are very, very common - via a 3rd party software program called "Mobi2Mobi", but is both annoying and time-consuming to have to do so. )
Author: incorrectly set to Index under "A" for Arthur..... Strictly speaking, he should be under "D" for Doyle, though many will prefer "C" for Conan Doyle.... (General Note: although Kindle displays author names in the form "Bram Stoker", in order for him to be positioned in the Kindle Author List under "S" for Stoker rather than "B" for Bram, the Metadata must be set by the publisher in the form "Stoker, Bram". )
Title: it's a quibble, but the set will Index under "C" for Complete.... I'd prefer "S" for, say, "Sherlock Holmes: The Complete 9 Volumes" (General Note: although Kindle knows to ignore an opening "The" in a title, it simple takes the first proper word in the metadata title to index the book. Publishers often include words before the proper title of the book that lead Kindle to place it misleadingly in your displayed Title List.)
Search: works properly. Lookup: works properly. (General Note: for reasons I don't yet quite understand, a number of Kindle format books - usually at the less expensive end of the range - don't allow Search or Lookup to work properly.)
Best if taken a little at a time "Complete Sherlock Holmes" contains all the Sherlock Holmes stories.
I enjoyed Sherlock Holmes as a teenager and as a young adult and still dip into a Holmes mystery once in a while. Arthur Conan Doyle created a unique and enduring character when he first wrote of Sherlock Holmes.
However, I do not give these stories that one extra star because some of the stories just do not have any of the magic of the best of the stories.
If this book is taken in big, fast, gulps, the reader may tire of Sherlock's less social traits. I think this collection is best if taken a little at a time. There are some terrific stories here. But, if you insist on devouring several stories at a sitting, the terrific stories will not seem as terrific when ingested along with some of the less terrific stories and things may get confused in your head.
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