Sherlock Holmes: The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle

The cover of my Kindle edition of The Valley of Fear is pulp. It shows a scantily clad woman, screaming, as a muscular arm–its hand curled into a fist–threatens her in the foreground. The attacker’s arm is branded with a triangle enclosed in circle. The publisher’s logo appears in the upper left corner: Hard Case… Continue reading Sherlock Holmes: The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Spoiler alert! In The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle’s sixth Sherlock Holmes book, Sherlock Holmes, the famed detective, returns. “The Final Problem,” the last story of The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, was set in 1891. “The Adventure of the Empty House,” the first story of The Return of Sherlock Holmes, is set in… Continue reading The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

A beast haunts the moors of Devonshire–a giant hound, ghostly in appearance, demonic in purpose. It is the curse laid on the Baskerville family by the evil done by one of its ancestry. The ancestral lord abducted a local girl and planned to rape her, but when she escaped, he hunted her with his hounds.… Continue reading The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmes: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

One doesn’t have to dive deep into Sherlock Holmes research before he learns that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle grew to resent the character and regret his success. He began publishing Sherlock Holmes tales in 1886, and by 1893, when these stories that make up The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes appeared in The Strand, Doyle was… Continue reading Sherlock Holmes: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet

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Returning to London from the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1880), Dr. John H. Watson seeks a flatmate to share expenses. After a colleague introduces him to Sherlock Holmes, the pair rent a flat at 221B Baker Street. Watson finds Holmes curious, an enigma, but one morning, Holmes confesses to being a consulting detective. That same morning,… Continue reading Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet