| Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Collection (Every Sherlock Holmes story written by Doyle!) |  | Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: ignacio hills press (TM) IgnacioHillsPress.com and e-Pulp Adventures (TM)
Category: eBooks
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Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 1,161
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Edition: 2nd
ASIN: B001ECQKQ6
Publication Date: August 16, 2008
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NOTE: This edition has a linked "Table of Contents" and has been beautifully formatted (searchable and interlinked) to work on your Amazon e-book reader, Amazon Desktop Reader, and your ipod e-book reader.
This edition contains all of the "Sherlock Holmes" stories (4 novels and 56 short stories) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The contents are:
Including the novels:
A Study In Scarlet
The Sign of the Four
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Valley of Fear
Short story collections:
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
His Last Bow
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
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 Typos mar an otherwise great value July 4, 2010
K. Kurson (South Orange, NJ USA)
The stories themselves are, of course, beyond reproach. And the value of all four novels and all the short stories for under a buck is ridiculous. However, the number of typos here is outrageous, and it's particularly off-putting here because of the exquisite craft of the writing. There were several instances in the first few stories I read where a series of typos changed the meaning of the story, causing me to go back and re-read. The exact kind of irritating experience I don't want when I'm reading purely for pleasure. Why can't someone simply proofread and correct the Kindle version before it's published? I am sure they've sold a thousand Kindle versions of this book. If Amazon charged $1.49 instead of $.99, they could pay some smarty-pants grad student $500 to proofread and I bet they'd have lost very few sales. Instead, I find myself once again reluctant to purchase any book written before the Kindle era.
 Not Kindle ready June 20, 2010
W. L. Rubink (Edinburg, TX, USA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
It was encouraging to see a complete Sherlock Holmes set on Kindle. But although it is readable, Kindle makes frequent mistakes about location and reverts to other books when moving from chapter to chapter in one selection. I gave up trying to read when it would inexplicably made a hyperspace leap to another unnamed book or short story and require careful searching to find the actual volume and page I had just been reading. This Kindle edition needs to be fixed or junked. It ain't worth even a buck as is.
 sherlock holmes addict June 13, 2010
Anne M Strangeway
Even long time, die hard afficionados of "Sherlock Holmes" will appreciate this collection. I have hard cover copies of all the works pertaining to Holmes, in my home library (well and often read over the years) but I love having them on my Kindle.
Interesting Picture of the Late victorian Era May 13, 2010
edward boyhan (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, USA)
The Holmes stories span a period from 1880 to 1914 (though most of the stories are set before 1903 -- Conan Doyle wrote them starting in 1892 through 1925). It is interesting to compare the original stories with the Basil Rathbone movies (which most of us are familiar with -- only two of which were based in any great way on the stories).
Based on the stories, I would say that Rathbone's portrayal was right on; whereas Nigel Bruce's Watson was perhaps a bit more bumbling than that depicted in the stories.
Another discovery was the references to America in the stories. Two stand out in my memory: in "A Study in Scarlet" almost half the book is a story within a story about mormons in Utah around the time of Brigham Young (although he is not specifically mentioned, several senior "bishops" are). Another story's key clue was "KKK", and I'm thinking Ku Klux Klan -- but it couldn't be? But it actually was about the clan (in Florida in 1869) -- also an interesting explanation of the derivation of the name "Ku Klux Klan" is given by Holmes.
My main reason for reading these (even though they are crackling good stories in their own right) was to get a picture from the background of the state of technology in the 1880s and 90s. Electric lighting does not appear much, nor do autos. On the other hand in one of the earliest stories reference is made to the fact that there was a telephone at Scotland Yard. Fast travel is always by train, and fast communications is always by telegraph. Cars do appear in a few of the later stories.
Kindle formatting was adequate; the table of contents (of a very large compound book) was helpful.
Good for a short bit of entertainment May 3, 2010
M. J. Keel (Somewhere in the Far East)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
In this volume you will find all of Conan Doyle's complete stories of Sherlock Holmes and four novels (or really novellas). Most of the stories will keep you guessing and are fun reads to boot. The four novellas are like lengthened short stories. The first parts of the detective stories featuring Holmes and Watson while the last part are usually back story to explain the motivation for the parties who either hired Holmes or were the criminals themselves. If you are looking for detailed characterization you should look elsewhere, but if you enjoy short interesting events-centered stories you will really enjoy this book. This is great reading for those who like the continuity of reading a long book, but don't have the time to invest in something long. I found the Kindle edition especially helpful with the table of contents feature. There are a few typos, but it did not detract from the reading experience.
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