A review by ariaoffantasy
The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

4.0

I've had this sitting on my shelf for years and finally got to it. I don't know where everyone gets, "simple elementary my dear Watson," from, because he never says that exact series of words. If I remember correctly, Holmes only even uses the word elementary about three times. I really enjoyed it, if I had to say something bad about it, it would be the grammar. There are several typos where they left out letters in names after stating the correct spelling of them. It seemed like it was hand typed or copied word for word from an original copy because there were several unnecessary hyphens. Aside from the sometimes distracting grammar, this is a great book.
If you like to make your own guesses based on clues in mystery novels, this might not be for you. Most of the clues remain kept in Homes' mind until either the very end of a case, or very close to the end of the cases.