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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20041205
Author:Reviewed by Daniel Stashower

THE NEW ANNOTATED SHERLOCK HOLMES

The Short Stories

By Arthur Conan Doyle

Edited by Leslie S. Klinger. Norton. 2 volumes. 1,878 pp. $75

"Poor Holmes is dead and damned," remarked Arthur Conan Doyle in 1896, soon after consigning the famous detective to death at the Reichenbach Falls. "I have had such an overdose of him that I feel towards him as I do towards pate de foie gras, of which I once ate too much, so that the name of it gives me a sickly feeling to this day."

Needless to say, Sherlock Holmes did not go gentle into that good night but came raging back to face a further series of ...

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