Outstanding and beautiful and a joy to posses, read and browse. A must-have for the serious Sherlock Holmes enthusiast.

How can you not say you like Sherlock Holmes? Annotated by a member of the Baker Street Irregulars, this tome was bound to be informative and strange at the same time. One of the things that came to the forefront to me repeatedly on this read-through was how strangely different life was just 100 years ago. It is easy to delude ourselves into believing that we can understand people of the Victorian age (it certainly is a popular time for people to talk about / emulate), but their attitudes on justice, and labor, and country, and race, and religion, and gender are foreign to our modern discourse. The footnotes are largely interesting and about evenly split between information a modern reader could use to understand the story better and ways people have attempted to maintain the great fiction that "the Canon" is all real.

It's quite good actually, but I think some parts in the story could be more detailed explain

Christmas present from mother dearest. I haven't finished every commentary and insight into the man who was Shirlock Holmes, but I'll get there.

When I need a Sherlock Holmes fix - often - I go straight to the stories, but this book and the companion book of the Holmes novels is a must for any real Holmes addict. The side notes are fascinating and give insight to elements of the period that might be lost on readers. Hefty price, but worth it.

This is THE definative set for fans of Sherlock Holmes. There's loads of great footnotes here, detailing aspects of Victorian culture and discussing the links between the stories. It doesn't take itself overly seriously, though -- there's some amusing stuff about possible errors in the manuscript, discontinuities (for example, Watson's wandering war wound), and unlikely but interesting possible connections between the characters. The whole thing's also liberally illustrated, with Sidney Paget's illustrations of course, but also with illustrations from various other magazines and newspapers that serialized the stories. I just can't recommend this enough.

If you like the Sherlock stories then this is a very good book to read them from, it is filled with a biography of Arthur C Doyle, tidbits and explanations of things that were once common knowledge and time lines and time line errors. It is also filled with many illustrations from the various publications.

This is the best Holmes collection you would ever find,
perfectly annotated and with alot and lots of Holmes and Watson facts :))

It had its good portions, it had its weird portions, it had its genuinely awesome portions - and its truly heartwarming portions and its comedic parts.
Ta-da!

(N.B Technically I have read the Adventures in another book a few weeks ago and the second volume of this itself yesterday).