I enjoyed this collection of short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, especially the ones "The Siren of Sennen Cove" and "A Hansom for Mr. Holmes". I also liked the essay "100 Years of Sherlock Holmes" which looked at how the Holmes character has been portrayed over the years on stage and film.

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With most collections of tales, there are usually superb stories and some duds. The duds can be overlooked if the rest are up to snuff. Holmes lovers will find a great deal of snuffiness here. A great read!

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There really isn't a bad piece in this book, though a couple of them aren't as good as the others. I got this for the L.B. Greenwood story, "Darkest Gold," because I really liked her first Holmes novel, Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Raleigh Legacy, but my favorites turned out to be the Anne Perry and Loren D. Estleman stories. Most of the stories do a very good job of mimicking Doyle's style and formula, which is where lots of Holmes pastiches fail. The three nonfiction pieces — one by Doyle containing some Holmes-related anecdotes, one about the various film and TV adaptations of the Canon, and one about words Doyle introduced into the English language — were all interesting, but not as much as the stories. Overall, this is a very good collection for any Sherlockian.

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