The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes

The stories in this reach a whole other level compared to the previous collection, the mysteries more complex and interesting, the adventures more entertaining, and featuring the introduction of some absolutely iconic characters in Mycroft and Moriarty.

This must be the definitive collection of Sherlock Holmes stories.

Just like book number 3, I felt this book was not as great as the first two entries. As with every collection of stories, some were very interesting and solid Sherlock stories, but others seemed a little lower in quality and even repetitive. The highs in this book were not as high as I expected and this book pushed me to take a break from this series.

My favorite stories from this book were:

• The adventure of Silver Blaze
• The adventure of the Yellow face 
• The adventure of the Gloria Scott
• The adventure of the Reigate Squire
• The adventure of the crooked man
• The adventure of the resident patient.

A great book with several excellent short stories. All the more surprising how rapidly it finished and did away with the main character (pardon me for this spoiler, but I hope 130 years in, everyone knows the broad strokes of the story about Holmes).

the ending has sent me into a spiral and it's gonna keep me up all night i just know it

3.5

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.

Another collection of short stories like The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The last story shows his arch enemy Moriarty, but there is nothing exceptional about it. It is short and told in the same fact reporting style like the others, although with a different ending.

There is a story about Sherlock reminding of the case that made him decide to become a detective back when he was in college, and another introducing his elder and more intelligent brother, Mycroft.

Brilliant.