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Sherlock: The Essential Arthur Conan Doyle Adventures by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (view source)
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There can be few people who haven't heard of Sherlock Holmes, whether in the guise of the original stories or subsequent film and television adaptations including the most recent series starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, who are pictured on the dust cover of ''Sherlock: The Essential Arthur Conan Doyle Adventures''. It's this most recent series which has widened the fan base of the stories and many of them won't have copies of the original stories to hand. My own copy is a 1959 reprint of the 1929 edition which had four stories in one volume, but this current volume has nineteen stories in the one book.
Each story has been chosen by the ''Sherlock'' series co-creators [[:Category:Mark Gatiss|Mark Gatiss]] and [[:Category:Steven Moffat|Steven Moffat]] and they provide and an introduction to each story. These are not extensive - for instance ''A Study in Scarlet'' is prefaced by ''The first adventure and still one of the best. Our heroes meet. 'You must have been in Afghanistan, I perceive.' Corpse thrashing! Mormons! Revenge! It must have landed like a rocket into Victorian fiction.'' It's short, to the point and doesn't intrude on what we're here for - which is the stories themselves.
The stories selected by Gatiss and Moffat are: