Great book

[Marius Pontmercy]

If you read other works by Doyle, than you must read this book.

[Reichenbach]

I agree, next to 'A Study in Scarlet' this is the best long story!

[wavehaven]

I love this story. In fact, I found an old 1900's book published by W.B. Conkey Co. (Chicago). I have the complete works (new) but there's just something about reading from an old book....

[KidTruth]

My favorite of the collection - this story gives more attention to Holmes as a character. When was this written in relation to the others? Before or after Doyle grew to hate Holmes?

[ben.!]

It was second, after 'A Study in Scarlet', his first ever Sherlock Holmes story.

So I'm guessing he hadn't quite developed his love/hate relationship of Holmes yet. :p

[Big Dante]

I recently found the complete Sherlock Holmes at my favourite local bookstore at a very cheap price so to my delight i bought it and ran home to read it. I just finished the second novel in it which is The Sign of Four and I loved it. Sherlock Holmes is such an interesting character and Dr Watson is a very good narrator, a very clever choice on Doyle's part to tell the story from his perspective.

While I have only read these two stories so far I have found them simple and yet a very good read and next in the collection is some of his short stories which I look forward to reading.