from BooksForDinner

Never read this one before, same as with study in scarlet... i had only read the short stories when i was younger. This had the same kind of flashback sectioin, only it was a story told by a character as opposed to a full on flashback with a different narrator...

from Adilinaria

This one had a lot of the dated language and imagery I'd expect from a Victorian novel unfortunately, so be aware of that going in. Colonialism was strong here. Besides that it had something that I think a lot of the short stories lack, and I really found that fun. The 'high speed boat chase' was...

from atoponce

So being a Sherlock Holmes newb, I had no idea that Dr. Watson got married. Second book into the series, and Watson gets love struck by the female lead in the story who brings the case to Holmes, and runs off to marry her at the end of the book.As a story goes, I really enjoyed this one, because ...

from ursula

What is there to say about Sherlock Holmes and Watson that everyone else hasn't already said? That won't stop me, though. I am reading them in order, so this is my second encounter with Holmes and Watson. Here you begin to see what would become the basis for endless film and tv representations of...

from pgchuis

Read for my OU course. Classic Holmes, accompanied (rather than aided) by Dr Watson. The concluding chapter is one long recounting of the original crime, rather than Holmes actually deducing anything, but before that he gets to say that oft-quoted thing about the improbable truth being what is l...