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David McK (3207 KP) rated The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes #9) in Books

May 12, 2024  
The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes #9)
The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes #9)
Arthur Conan Doyle | 1927
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8.0 (1 Ratings)
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"Come at once if convenient. If not convenient, come at once all the same - SH"

The final entry in Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes canon, which - again - I experienced through a mixture of reading and listening to the Stephen Fry narrated Audible version, and which is also really once again a collection of short stories rather than a single over-arching narrative.

What is unique in this collection, though, is that some of the stories are presented as Holmes himself delivering the narrative, rather than Watson acting as the biographer.

I also noticed - perhaps reflecting the nature of the time in which they were written, and Doyle's own interests - that there are more of the, shall we say, supernatural elements in the case chosen ("The adventure of the Sussex Vampire" springs to mind, for example) although - in all cases - the supernatural elements are later debunked by Holmes himself.

As a whole? I thoroughly enjoyed my time in the company of Holmes and Watson.