A review by hannahstohelit
The Uncollected Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, Richard Lancelyn Green

4.5

I enjoyed this a lot! I did know much of the material in it from other sources since published, but certainly not all of it, and I particularly enjoyed reading about fantheories about the solution of Hound of the Baskervilles that were debated in the newspapers as it was being published. That said, I was hoping for a bit more reprinted matter that I hadn't already read (which isn't exactly the book's fault), and do kind of wish we'd have gotten one or two of ACD's non-Holmes detective stories in there (particularly the ones that have the "famous detective" writing in) as well as I think that they are relevant to the overall point of the book, which is contextualizing ACD's writing of Holmes. I thought Richard Lancelyn Green's introduction was very well done, and while I don't think this is the first time I've read something he's written on Holmes, I did appreciate how great he was at all of this- as, like so many people, my first exposure to him was in learning of his tragic and dramatic death, reading something fascinating from his life feels both positive and refreshing.