Alejandro's Reviews > The Greatest Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Elementary, dear fellow readers!


THE GREAT DETECTIVE

If you are wondering how the heck I could read in 1987, an edition published in 2009, well you don’t need to hire Sherlock Holmes to solve this mistery, the solution is quite simple, I read the entire collection of Sherlock Holmes back there in 1987, if you check my “Sherlock Holmes” shelf, you will find the separate books there, and even a two-volumes edition that I bought later too, but I needed one single edition to use it in my “favorites” shelf since I felt that I needed to show it there and this one was the best one that I found in Goodreads, also it was quite difficult to choose just one book above the rest, so I decided that this one was the best available option for my purpose.

It’s obvious that not all original Sherlock Holmes stories have aged well, even it’s not a matter of aging but that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ideas have been adapted in other works so much that some of his mysteries aren’t that great nowadays, but still Sherlock Holmes is the basic example to follow for any author interested in developing detective novels, bute ven the basis for developing characters out of the usual “nice person” since Sherlock Holmes was a character with as many flaws as virtues, making him a real human being along as an extraordinary detective able to analyze evidence like none other, always under the critic eye of his companion, Dr. John Watson, his most relevant link to humanity.