Complete Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle

The Complete Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle

Review by
Robert Wilfred Franson

preface by Christopher Morley

Doubleday, New York, 1930

1122 pages

June 2008

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 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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