The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes : The Complete Short Stories

from Kaethe

not a good place to start

from shmjay

If you have never read Sherlock Holmes, avoid this set as you would the plague. As the publisher was Norton, I expected something like Gardiner's Annotated Alice or Michael Patrick Hearn's annotations of Huckleberry Finn and The Wizard of Oz. Instead what I got was a bunch of trivial inanities wh...

from jeff.maynes

The "New Annotated Sherlock Holmes" first volume contains all of the short stories originally published in "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" and "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes." These stories comprise the initial run of Holmes' tales, ending with the climactic "The Final Problem," in which Hol...

from Buzz

This, and 3rd book, are finest collection of Holmes ever. The footnotes and illustrations makes late 1800's England leap off the page in explaining the entire Holmes experience. Many of the nuances in BBC's "Sherlock" seem to have been taken from these pages.