(Borrowed from the Jackson Heights library) After watching Lucy Worsley's TV series on Arthur Conan Doyle, I picked up the Complete Sherlock Holmes Vol. I at the library. Also The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes contained therein is one of the 100 books the BBC says I should read before I die. I was familiar with several of the short stories from listening to the Sherlock Holmes radio series with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce on a collection of CDs found at a second-hand store in upstate NY. This volume contains the Adventures, Memoirs and Return of Sherlock Holmes as well as the novels A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four. The stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes mostly follow a formula: Holmes and Watson are in their Baker Street digs, a distraught client arrives with a perplexing problem which he/she describes in detail, Holmes investigates and finds the solution using his amazing powers of observation, deducing the answer from small details. I was never a huge Holmes fan, but these tales are enjoyable.
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