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Summary: Elementary it is not
Review: This Sherlock Holmes collection remains an enduring classic that for those who love this take on Victorian England can be read and reread with great pleasure. A good part of that pleasure is the language and the mystique of the time and place, but most of the pleasure, I suspect, comes from the way Holmes's mind works. It is especially fun to view that mind through the stuffy fog of Watson's narration. No matter how hard he tries to figure out what is going on, Holmes is always several steps ahead of him - and the reader as well.The most fascinating aspect of these stories is the strangely modern character that Conan Doyle created in Holmes, a mystery man with an ill defined past, who plays the violin, possesses an encyclopedic knowledge of odd minutia that only the FBI labs could fully appreciate, thinks blindingly fast and always outside the box, is addicted to drugs and strangely indifferent to sex (as far as Watson knows, anyway). A far cry from what we have come to expect a detective to be, but SO entertaining in these very artificial melodramas. These stories are so far from what any kind of police or detective work have ever been that one could dismiss them, except then we would miss the fun.
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Summary: Book Design Poor
Review: This is a very cheaply designed volume of paste and cardboard, most of the really good editions of "Sherlock Holmes" have gone out of print. Publishers today produce disposable junk, especially when there aren't many readers in the U.S.A. the most illiterate country in the western world. The Amazon reviewer is a liar which comes naturally from a corporation known for graft, he also manages to compact political correctness while dismissing these classic books as trivial at the same time.
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Summary: path-breaking fiction
Review: Each story reveals bare facts of Victorian life.Devoid of flowery language and overflowing sentimentality that Shelley,Keats,Dickens and others affected.Even compared to today's writers shows great knowledge of sociology,criminology and advances in investigative methods.
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Summary: The series was great, ACD is as thrilling today as ever!
Review: I loved this series. As soon as I read one Sherlock Holmes Adventure I absolutely had to read them all. No other cunning detectives I have ever read of compare to the legendary sleuth mind of SH. You can follow Holmes and Watson from the time they meet, through Watson's marriage, Holmes' cocaine habits, the death of Moriarty, to Holmes' retirement. If you love good mysteries you won't be able to put these down. The only problem is that ACD didn't write more.
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Summary: IT THE BEST ENGLISH BOOK I HAVE EVER READ.
Review: I am a Spanish Speaker. The first time I read a Sherlock Holmes book, was in a spanish version, and I love it. It was a pleasure for me, read again in English the hole adventures of the gratest detective in the world and his inseparable friend. I will never get tired of read it again and again. You MUST read this book because you will find hours and hours of pleasure and excitement. It will keep you on your seat. I recommend it 100% to all the ages. It is the best English book I have ever read.
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Summary: Of course it's great. It's Sherlock Holmes.
Review: We all know that these are the best detective stories ever, so I'll contain my review to this book. It is the only one volume edition. The Holmes canon consists of four novels :Hound of the Baskervilles, Sign of Four, Study in Scarlet, and Valley of Fear, and five collections of short stories: Adventures of S.H., Memoirs of S.H., Return of S.H., His Last Bow, and Casebook of S.H. These are often published separately, but this Doubleday edition contains every one of them in one package. If you're really into measuring footprints and analyzing cigarette ash then this is the book you need.
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Summary: Classic
Review: This book centers around the most famous character in all of fiction, and contains the best detecitve stories ever written. One might as well own them all, as this fine volume allows. True, Doyle was uneven, and his novels didn't always live up to his stories, but heck, it's all amusing, and there's no excuse for missing a single adventure.
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Summary: It's THE best collection of Holme's mysteries!
Review: This is THE best collection of this kind of all time! Once you've read the first page, you need to finish it. Now you don't have to buy all the books, because all of Sherlock Holmes's most famous (and infamous) cases are in this stupendous example of literature.
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Summary: The Classic Detective
Review: Anyone not familiar with all of Doyle's Sherlock Holmes is truly missing out. I first read The Complete Sherlock Holmes when I was 8 (not difficult reading and very enjoyable) and have been an afficionado ever since. Holmes is, without a doubt, THE detective (see Irene Adler in "A Scandal in Bohemia"). This is the work that gave detectives a place in literature. All other mystery fiction stems from this. A must-read.
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Summary: classic suspense
Review: how did doyle come up with those sophisticated plot
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