Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes

An exception account on the powers of observations. In this fictitious plot, Sherlock Holmes emerges as the Primus Inter Pares among Victorian sleuths to solve the most uncanny of crimes. Sir Author Conan Doyle's style of writing that withhold all facts of a case until the end of a story makes for god suspense. Among the eleven short stories in the book, two of them make it to my list of must reads - ‘The Stockbroker's Clerk' and ‘The Naval Treaty'. In both stories, the reader discovers an alternative plot of a case of the very last page of the stories.

The general book makes for a quick read. Had to pick a dictionary to understand some of the 20th-century English words that appeared quite often such as hansom for a two-wheeled cab, ‘by jove' meaning in God's name et cetera.