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The Oxford Sherlock Holmes (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes / His Last Hour / Hound of the Baskervilles / Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes / Return of Sherlock Holmes / Sign of Four / Study in Scarlet / Valley of Fear)

1993

  • private investigators
  • fiction
  • british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • holmes, sherlock (fictitious character), fiction
  • watson, john h. (fictitious character), fiction
  • fiction, mystery & detective, traditional
  • england, fiction
  • private investigators, fiction
  • fiction, short stories (single author)
  • moriarty, professor (fictitious character), fiction

The story

Contains: - [Adventures of Sherlock Holmes](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262421W/The_Adventures_of_Sherlock_Holmes) [Scandal in Bohemia](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14930611W/A_Scandal_in_Bohemia) [Red-Headed League](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262476W/The_Red-Headed_League) [Case of Identity](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14929939W/A_Case_of_Identity) [Boscombe Valley Mystery](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL18495288W/The_Boscombe_Valley_Mystery) [Five Orange Pips](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518120W/Five_Orange_Pips) [Man with the Twisted Lip](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14930258W/Man_With_the_Twisted_Lip) [Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518317W/Adventure_of_the_Blue_Carbuncle) [Adventure of the Speckled Band](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262561W/Adventure_of_the_Speckled_Band) [Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518318W/Adventure_of_the_Engineer's_Thumb) [Adventure of the Noble Bachelor](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14929841W/Adventure_of_the_Noble_Bachelor) [Adventure of the Beryl Coronet](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14929825W/Adventure_of_the_Beryl_Coronet) [Adventure of the Copper Beeches](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518116W/Adventure_of_the_Copper_Beeches) - Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes - His Last Hour - Hound of the Baskervilles - [Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262598W/Memoirs_of_Sherlock_Holmes) [Silver Blaze](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518358W/Silver_Blaze) [Adventure of the Yellow Face](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20571966W/Adventure_of_the_Yellow_Face) [Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20619319W/Adventure_of_the_Stockbroker's_Clerk) [Adventure of the Gloria Scott](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20619337W/Adventure_of_the_Gloria_Scott) [Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20619374W/Adventure_of_the_Musgrave_Ri

What it’s like

Foggy Victorian London on the page: gaslit streets, hansom cabs clattering over wet cobbles, sooty fog that swallows the river, and tidy rooms in Baker Street where pipe smoke hangs over a chemical bench and a violin sounds in the dark. Doyle's prose is clean, dry and faintly ironic, narrated by the steady, good-humoured Watson, so the atmosphere arrives through observation rather than lush description. The vibe is brisk and cosy-eerie, a mix of comfortable domestic routine and sudden unease, like a damp autumn evening with the lamps lit. It suits a rainy Sunday with a pot of tea, a long-haul flight where short chapters break up the time, or a comfort reread before bed. Pacing is quick and episodic: most stories are self-contained, a single puzzle unfolding through interviews, deductions and a clever reveal, with the close, affectionate partnership between Holmes and Watson giving the whole collection its warmth. Violence is mostly offstage or brief, with a few tense, creepy moments (a hound on the moor, a deadly snake, a pale face at a window) but no gore and little explicit cruelty. Good for readers who want mystery with a gentle, witty tone and a sense of an older world.

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