The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Book Review: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The literary world is incomplete without the mention of Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary fictional character Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock Holmes ruled the minds of audiences in a way that no other literary character has been able to and his adventures continue to amaze, terrify and thrill us to this day.
The author wrote several novels with Holmes, but it was his short stories that became a great success among readers. Of the five collections that were published, “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, published in 1892, was the first and most popular. It contains all but one of the five most popular tales of all time in the Sherlock Holmes catalog (A Scandal in Bohemia, The Red-Headed League, The Blue Anthrax, and The Speckled Band), as well as a few other gems like The Five Nuggets. of Orange.
These stories are considered among the best ever written in the genre of mystery and detective literature and for those wishing to try the work of Arthur Conan Doyle for the first time, it would be a great idea to start with these stories first.
Stand out
A scandal in Bohemia
This is the first story to appear in the collection and one of the best. The story involves Holmes’ rare failure to find the culprit. He is hired by the Kingdom of Bohemia to retrieve a scandalous photograph of the kingdom’s future king from the beautiful Irene Adler. After going through a plethora of disguises and detective work, Holmes is outsmarted by the lady in an intriguing way.
The League of Redheads
Generally regarded as the second best Sherlock Holmes story of all time, this bizarre tale features a pawnbroker who is paid money to join the mysterious league of redheads, as part of an ingenious scheme to rob a bank.
Complete list of stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- A scandal in Bohemia
- The League of Redheads
- A case of identity
- The Boscombe Valley Mystery
- The five orange seeds
- The man with the twisted lip
- The Adventure of the Blue Anthrax
- The Speckled Band Adventure
- The adventure of the engineer’s thumb
- The adventure of the noble bachelor
- The Adventure of the Beryl Crown
- The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
because I like The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes much? Well, the exquisite details of the characters make them real instead of made up, the stories and sometimes unbelievable (in a good way) problems within the plots are absolutely amazing.