Reviews of Books by Arthur Conan Doyle

This is The classic Sherlock Holmes book, and it is worthy of the name. It varies a little from the majority of the Sherlock Holmes works, as it spends a lot of time with Watson thinking he is without Holmes. The summary: a man has died, and it seems he dies of fright at his [...]

A collection of short stories. Table of Contents reads: A Scandal in Bohemia (the famous Irene Adler story) The Red-Headed League A Case of Identity The Boscombe Valley Mystery The Five Orange Pips The Man with the Twisted Lips The Adventure of Blue Carbuncl The Adventure of the Speckled Band The Adventure of the Engineer’s [...]

After finishing The Obsidian Trilogy, I was looking for something lighter – or at least shorter! I am running out of time if I want to read 50 books before New years (November 21 and I have only read 32 books – starting in June not withstanding), so I turned to the shelves and found [...]

I felt the need for something different this afternoon, a distraction if you will. My daughter recently read through the Sherlock Holmes novels and thoroughly enjoyed them, so I thought they might take my interest too. Having just finished Mercedes Lackey‘s comparatively heavy This Rough Magic, a light read was most welcome, and I ran [...]