While I understood why, I definitely felt like there were times he could’ve at least let Watson know what was going on so he could better help him. My biggest criticism with this volume was how Holmes was still keeping Watson in the dark at times when they’d solve cases together.

They had twists in their plot I wasn’t expecting that made me continue to read them to find out what happened next. What all of these stories have in common in comparison to the others in this volume for me is that the stories were interesting to me in ways I didn’t expect. Some of my favorites were The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Valley of Fear, His Last Bow, The Adventure of the Dying Detective, The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire, and The Adventure of the Lion’s Mane, just to name a few. There were also a lot of cases in this volume that I really enjoyed overall which made this book an enjoyable read to me. It just felt like they were more interesting to me story wise. And I feel like I enjoyed a lot of those cases more in this volume than the last one. Like with the first volume, there were a lot of cases in this one that weren’t just murder. It also felt like their relationship and trust with each other had grown since the first volume, which I liked to see. Their relationship with each other was still enjoyable to me to read and I continued to love how Watson described their cases. Like with the first volume, I still enjoy seeing Holmes and Watson interact with each other and how they go about solving cases together. Just like the first volume, which you can check out my review of here, I enjoyed reading this volume of the rest of Sherlock Holmes novels and stories. Watson has faithfully recorded Holmes’s feats of extraordinary detection in such famous cases as the thrilling The Adventure of the Red Circle and the twelve baffling adventures from The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes.Ĭonan Doyle’s incomparable tales bring to life a Victorian England of horse-drawn cabs, fogs, and the famous lodgings at 221B Baker Street, where for more than forty years Sherlock Holmes earned his undisputed reputation as the greatest fictional detective of all time. The Valley of Fear matches Holmes against his archenemy, the master of imaginative crime, Professor Moriarty.

Volume II begins with The Hound of the Baskervilles, a haunting novel of murder on eerie Grimpen Moor, which has rightly earned its reputation as the finest murder mystery ever written. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyle’s classic hero-a truly complete collection of Sherlock Holmes’s adventures in crime! Since his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created.

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