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You would not call me a marrying man, Watson?

The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

May 8, 2019 by vel veeter 2 Comments

Sorry to spoil it for you, but Sherlock Holmes, it turns out, is NOT dead. Dun dun dunnnnn. We start off this collection with the discussion of a mystery unfolding and Watson deciding to give it a go on his own and in the process, he stumbles upon an old man and accidentally knocks over the books and parcels he’s carrying. When the old man calls on him the next day, it turns out it was Sherlock Holmes in disguise! The timeline of Holmes is […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Arthur Conan Doyle, the return of sherlock holmes

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:246 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Arthur Conan Doyle, the return of sherlock holmes ·
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“Holmes,” I cried. “Is it really you?”

October 31, 2018 by narfna Leave a Comment

While gathering my thoughts to start writing this review, I kept getting the feeling that this was my favorite of the Holmes story collections so far. With this feeling in mind, I moseyed on over to Goodreads to look at my status updates to try to collect evidence to back it up (I rate and do mini-reviews for every story), whereupon I found to my surprise that my reaction to most of the stories was just good, not great. It’s a solid story collection! However, only two out […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Mystery, Short Stories Tagged With: Arthur Conan Doyle, British, classics, Detective Fiction, mysteries, narfna, Sherlock Holmes, sir arthur conan doyle, Stephen Fry, the return of sherlock holmes

narfna's CBR10 Review No:131 · Genres: Audiobooks, Mystery, Short Stories · Tags: Arthur Conan Doyle, British, classics, Detective Fiction, mysteries, narfna, Sherlock Holmes, sir arthur conan doyle, Stephen Fry, the return of sherlock holmes ·
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