The Case-Book Of Sherlock Holmes

A medley of enigmatic cases, showcasing the enduring wit and dark turns of Doyle's storytelling.

This is by far the weakest of the Holmes story collections. There are a couple of good ones in here, and some interesting insight into the Holmes/Watson friendship. But with two stories being narrated by Holmes, another narrated in third-person, and by far the worst of all 56 stories (the horrendous “Adventure of The Creeping Man”), it doesn't hold up nearly as well as the other collections.

I would have liked less stereotyping of black men as aggressive, women from Spain and South America as being “fiery,” and disabled people as being either angels or demons. (A heads up: in one story, a character uses the N word.)

I really enjoyed the narration by Holmes in the stories he tells.