jenmcgee 's review for:

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

4.0

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Many of these stories end with an oddly abrupt or open quality, like "The Five Orange Pips" where Holmes swears vengeance on the KKK--except then the ship the Klansman villain is on sinks so that was that. I would have loved to see Holmes travel to America to take down the Klan. Still, that only makes Holmes and Watson seem more real, somehow, and even when the mysteries themselves are absurd (the infamous milk-drinking sound-hearing snake in "The Speckled Band") the characters and the milieu live and breathe.