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The Complete Sherlock Holmes |
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| preface by Christopher Morley
Doubleday: New York, 1930 |
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1122 pages |
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes is the basic text if you want to enjoy A. Conan Doyle's great detective hero. I say basic deliberately; it is complete and solid. It's a much-reprinted, fairly easy-to-find collection, and with it you needn't worry about whether any assemblage of partial collections gives you all of these fine pieces: four novels and fifty-six short stories. Christopher Morley, an expert in Holmesiana, contributes a preface. There are fancy and book club editions of The Complete Sherlock Holmes; some are divided into two volumes, albeit with continuous pagination. If at some depth of sleuthful immersion you want intriguing supporting detail as well as original illustrations, I recommend The Annotated Sherlock Holmes: rarer, more expensive, and less handy — my favorite collected edition.
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© 2008 Robert Wilfred Franson |
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