Sherlock Holmes Canon by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Re: Sherlock Holmes Canon by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Yeah. I also enjoyed the short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes better than the novelsBobbylou Chandler wrote: ↑30 May 2016, 03:42 Sherlock Holmes is definitely a classic. What I found about the Holmes stories is that I enjoyed the short stories featuring him more than the novels, whereas the opposite is true for Agatha Christie's Poirot. I liked "the adventure of the speckled band" (which actually gave me some nightmares when I was younger), "silver blaze" and "the adventure of dancing men". Novel-wise I would pick A Study in Scarlet.
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You are right. Holmes never kept opium in the Persian slipper hanging from the mantelpiece - it was only tobacco. Holmes does disguise himself and hang out in an opium den in one of the stories though. I forget which one. Maybe it was The Man With The Twisted Lip ???Bigwig1973 wrote: ↑11 Aug 2020, 19:29 My parents had a Sherlock Holmes collection and I read the entire thing years ago. The relationship between Watson and Holmes is very nice. Nice to read about men getting along with one another and working together. I don't recall every reading that Holmes kept opium in his slipper - I heard that once. Someone said it was in the stories and if it was, I don't recall it. Holmes seemed sometimes absentminded in his drive and Watson seemed to be there to help him keep his hold on reality, in some weird way.
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You are right. Holmes never kept opium in the Persian slipper hanging from the mantelpiece - it was only tobacco. Holmes does disguise himself and hang out in an opium den in one of the stories though. I forget which one. Maybe it was The Man With The Twisted Lip ???
I'm not sure which story that would have been, when he went undercover, but - the tobacco would have totally made sense as he was always smoking a pipe, or at least puffing on one. I sometimes wondered whether or not I had read the "edited" version of the story! I'm glad someone else recalls it the same way I do!
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lanaholiday wrote: ↑28 May 2016, 01:10 This is one of my favorite books of all time! To me, the genius of Conan Doyle cannot be rivaled. I especially liked the depth of the characters, and the parts where Sherlock Holmes really showed how much he cared for Dr. John Watson. Their relationship is just absolutely riveting. The best part of all of his stories and novels, however, is the brilliance of Sherlock's deductions. The explanations and clever ideas written into the stories by Arthur Conan Doyle are together an immeasurable feat of intelligence. Every story is planned out with details, even the smallest of details that are woven in with skill to finally come together in the end and create a whole picture. I highly recommend this to anyone who loves mystery books or just plain classics!
There's actually a documentary I think the BBC did on Sherlock. It pretty much gave a history of Doyle's stories and how Sherlock's deductive reasoning and analysis of evidence from the crime scenes is what they modeled Scotland Yard after. Or rather, they took these principles and applied them to Scotland Yard's code of conduct. It was very interesting! I can't for the life of me remember what it was called but I'm fairly certain it was on Netflix.
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