The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (SH #3)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is Vol. 3 of the mammoth, comprehensive and all-inclusive 'Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Collection' spanning 2188 pages.

This is the first grouping of short stories after the first two novellas, A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four.

Here it all kicks off and becomes the Sherlock Holmes that we know and love, with short, bite-size mysteries with neat twists and tidy conclusions.

You may ask, if this collection of short stories is so fundamental, why does it come in at Vol. 3 instead of Vol. 1? Due to the complete collection being structured to retain the continuity of the friendship between Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, how they met and became friends, where they live in Baker Street, and how the mysteries unfolded in relation to past events, which makes better and more cohesive sense as fully explained in the first two novellas.

Sherlock Holmes works better as a whole, which is why I've rated this volume only 4 stars.

Whereas the entire collection gets 5 stars.

This is a fantastic set of short stories, followed by Vol. 4: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - more short stories - then moving onto the third novella, Vol. 5: The Hound of the Baskervilles.

Pick up the entire collection, it's dirt cheap and massively good value for money, then skip to this if you want bite-size chunks of Sherlock Holmes adventure.