The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

After watching two series of the unmissable BBC drama ‘Sherlock’, and having fallen slightly in love with Sherlock Holmes (or was that just Benedict Cumberbatch?) I decided it was about time I read some of the original stories for myself. Not being a huge fan of crime fiction or a big reader of Vict......more

This was probably my third reading of these tales and I enjoyed reading them as much as I did the first time, even though I remembered most of the solutions to the mysteries. The solutions weren't all that important. When I read the Holmes tales, I'm taken on an adventure and am fascinated by the de......more

Cuando terminé de ver la serie de Sherlock BBC con Benedict Cumberbatch, tuve una época de obsesión masiva para con el querido detective, en la que me vi las pelis de Robert Downey Jr y me compré varias obras de Sir Arthur, entre ellas El Valle del Miedo, Los Sabuesos de Baskerville y esta colección......more

"My dear fellow, life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent."-p47, Sherlock to Watson (The Adventure of a Case of Identity) I finally got round to reading this collection! Some of the adventures I’d read before at high school, but not since then (so we’re talking ar......more