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Jon (USA: MO) (2010/01/28):
Excellent collection of Holmes stories. This volume is just about the perfect size to carry around and easily read, clocking in at regular paperback size, about an inch and a half thick, and around 1000 pages. Included are the novels "A Study in Scarlet" and "The Sign of Four", as well as the entirety of the short story collections "Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", "Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes", and "The Return of Sherlock Holmes". These comprise 36 of the 56 Holmes short stories written by A.C. Doyle. Bantam has been publishing this combination of stories pretty much continuously since 1986, so there's probably more than a few different covers out there. The cover I have for Volume I is different from the one shown here. There's also a Volume II, which I haven't found, but, presumably, it has the other two Holmes novels ("The Hound of the Baskervilles" and "The Valley of Fear") as well as the remaining 20 short stories from "His Last Bow" and "The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes". The split between volumes is basically chronological, with earlier stories in Volume I and later stories in Volume II. The one exception is that "The Hound of the Baskervilles", included in Volume II, was actually written prior to the stories that appear in "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" which are included in Volume I. Not a big deal, just a point of interest.
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