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The Complete Sherlock Holmes

By Arthur Conan Doyle

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| Leather Bound | 9781566196048

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A Holmes for every home

"I have had such an overdose of him that I feel towards him as I do towards pâté de foie gras," said Arthur Conan Doyle of his most famous creation, Sherlock Holmes. I could apply the same simile to a different end: too much Holmes is no more likely ... (read full critics)

guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

The Complete Sherlock Holmes

Who knows how the art of fictional detection might have fared had a certain military surgeon attached to the 5th Northumberland Fusiliers in the second Afghan war not run into a former colleague from Barts hospital one day in Piccadilly circa 1880. D ... (read full critics)

guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

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I vividly remember hauling this big ass book to 4th grade every day. It probably caused long term damage to my back. Damn you, Sherlock. It was really good then and I'll read it again eventually.

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Joey Doll said on Jul 13, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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A Study In Scarlet
Part One: Being a peprint from the reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D., late of the army medical department
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Two murders had occurred, but the assassin seems to be the third one who has nothing to do with the victims.
Sherlock didn't tell the whole matter completely in th ... (continue)

A Study In Scarlet
Part One: Being a peprint from the reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D., late of the army medical department
->
Two murders had occurred, but the assassin seems to be the third one who has nothing to do with the victims.
Sherlock didn't tell the whole matter completely in this part, but by what the other two detectives and Sherlock had found, from their descriptions, you may put the puzzles together by yourself. In this part, you can know more about the characters of Sherlock, his thoughts, theories, works about deduction from Dr. Watson's observations.
2012/01/28 page 24
Part Two: The Country of the Saints
->Finished the case of A Study In Scarlet tonight!!!
One chapter at least per night.
Well done, Mia Chen!! :D
Keep going on.
I like Sherlock when he analyzes the matters he perceived,
I can read it really fast in this part without obstacles.
In the case of A Study In Scarlet, he showed us how to solve questions,
when you're only have the result first, and then how to reason it backwards.
2012/02/03 page 39
The Sign of Four
2012/02/17 page 69
I found that Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle really likes Germany.
German vocabularies and people appear in Sherlock Holmes for many times.
After I searched it on website, I think it's because he had studied in Austria.
And he had also been to Western Africa as a surgeon on ship, this got me thinking about Dr. Watson and scenes of voyage in the book.
You see, there are many characters in each book, but they represent different parts of its author.
"You see, but you do not observe"
This is what Sherlock has emphasized all time time. :D - 2012/02/18
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- 2012/05/10 page 142

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breakbowl said on Jan 28, 2012 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

...it's not that it took me over three years of constant reading to finish it, of course. I have kept this (massive) tome "on the side" to re-immerse myself in Victorian London whenever I felt like it.
It is clear that Sir A.C. Doyle, the author, got bored of his character, seeing that the last coll ... (continue)

...it's not that it took me over three years of constant reading to finish it, of course. I have kept this (massive) tome "on the side" to re-immerse myself in Victorian London whenever I felt like it.
It is clear that Sir A.C. Doyle, the author, got bored of his character, seeing that the last collection of short stories he published features less interesting - and shorter - adventures, but the overall quality is, as we all know, amazing.
Not much more can be said about something everybody knows of. Just that it is a smooth, pleasant, catchy read.

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Marco Piva said on Aug 2, 2010 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

Contiene:
* Study in Scarlet.
* The Sign of The Four.
* The Hound of The Hound.
* The Hound of The Baskervilles.
* The Valley of Fear.
* The adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
* The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
* The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
* His Last Bow.
* The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
Contiene ... (continue)

Contiene:
* Study in Scarlet.
* The Sign of The Four.
* The Hound of The Hound.
* The Hound of The Baskervilles.
* The Valley of Fear.
* The adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
* The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
* The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
* His Last Bow.
* The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
Contiene las Ilustraciones originales publicadas en la Revista Strand

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Aliesa de Ponthieu said on May 13, 2010 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback