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Title: The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (The Oxford Sherlock Holmes) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, W. W. Robson, Owen Edwards ISBN: 0192123114 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: November, 1993 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Rating: 2
Summary: Case Book of Sherlock Holmes
Comment: Buyer beware!! This audio contains only 4 or the original 13 stories contained in the Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Clearly it is an abridgement. !!
Rating: 5
Summary: Sherlock's Swan Song
Comment: "The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes" was Doyle's last collection of short stories on the great detective. The stories may not have been uniformly as good as the earlier Holmes stories, and some of the plots may have been derivative, but they still entertain.
"The Three Garridebs" rehashed the plot of "The Red Headed League". "The Creeping Man" turned in a creepy tale whose premise has been disproved by later science. "The Veiled Lodger" was not even a mystery.
The rest of the stories were much better. "The Blanched Soldier" presented a conundrum which Holmes solved without visiting the scene. "The Sussex Vampire" had a perfectly natural explanation. "The Lion's Mane" involved violent death, but was there a crime? Holmes worked for an unnamed "Illustrious Client", but you should be able to figure out who it was. We meet Holmes' page, Billy, for the first and last time in "The Mazarin Stone". We meet international intrigue in "Shoscombe Old Place" and an arrogant murderer in "The Retired Colourman". My favorite story of the lot is "The Problem of Thor Bridge", where Holmes clears a young lady of murder in the face of almost overwhelming evidence of guilt.
Rating: 5
Summary: First rate, though a tad different, Holmes' stories
Comment: Here we are again with the omniscient Holmes and incredulous Watson exploring mysteries as inscrutable as ever before. These stories are, as a previous reviewer has noted, on the darker side of things, no doubt as a resullt of WWI, in which Doyle lost his son. One even takes place, for the most part, in America, of all places!-There's always this comfortable, almost fairy tale sense in all of the Holmes' stories of this magic Victorian nightworld which Holmes and Watson float above in their upper middle class ease, and which we know (except in one story not in this book) that all will be well with the two friends in the end. Even when we know we are being duped, as when cigar ashes or some other peculiar evidence appears and Holmes announces "Surely you've read my monograph on the subject," and proceeds to expound upon their significance to the case, we are still pleased, like an opium smoker taking another drag from his pipe and drifting back to Xanadu. Like all Holmes' stories, these are bound to keep you turning the pages, as well as to enchant you thus.-Doyle's stories are so enchanting, in fact, that in the most recent issue of the New York Review of Books it is revealed that most Taiwanese believed that they were true and that London was a cobblestoned city perpetually inundated in fog!-A very nice compilation, indeed, with all the original drawings from The Strand.
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Title: The Sign of Four (Penguin Classics) by Arthur Conan Doyle, Peter Ackroyd, Ed Glinert ISBN: 0140439072 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 02 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.00 |
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Title: The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes: A Collection of Sherlock Holmes Adventures Based on Unsolved Cases from the Original Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Stories by Adrian Conan Doyle, John Dickson Carr ISBN: 0517203383 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle, Brenda Wineapple ISBN: 0451528018 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 10 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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