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 Dewey Decimal Number: 823.912 EAN: 9780606031271 ISBN: 0606031278 Label: Demco Media Manufacturer: Demco Media Publication Date: 1986-12 Publisher: Demco Media Studio: Demco Media Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Unreadable Text. It's WAYYYY TOOO SMALL TO READThe text is so small a normal human being can't read it. I was so excited to get this book and the text was so small. I tried to read it but was getting headaches and serious eyestrain. Why are these publishers so cheap? Why not have legible text? Why do they print these classics too small to read? No wonder kids hate reading these classics. I search high and low for text that big enough to read comfortably. I'm a young guy and there is nothing more frustrating than small mouse sized text. ... Read More Rating:  - Care and competence equals quality construction and cozy familiarityMy final installment of the Holmes' series, I can now lay claim to having read them all. Some of the stories toward the end slipped a bit, as it feels like Doyle, bored with the basic premise, characters, settings, and plot line, tried to tweak the variables to re-enliven the series for himself as the writer. But the life-long problem that Doyle had with Holmes is that people wanted their Holmes and Watson just as Doyle had always given it to them with no fancy flourishes. Two of these ... Read More Rating: - Rediscovering a great classicI just recently got interested in reading the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. This is the second Sherlock Holmes book for me. I particularly love this story collection and would recommend it to anyone who likes to do some brain-gymnastics in order to follow the twisted cases. Some of the stories are short enough to read them over breakfast, which wakes up my brain and gets me ready for work. Rating: - The greatest Sherlock Holmes collection!Recently I finished reading E.W. Hornung's The Crime Doctor, the outstanding novel about Doctor John Dollar (both physician AND detective), and I decided to pick up a complete set of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's works on Sherlock Holmes. Although this collection is a little dated, I consider it to be the best availible on the market. Rating: - One of my favorite writers!There's not much left to say about this literary classic. It's great to have all of the stories and novels put together, in the order that they were published--there are references here and there to things that happened in previous stories. Of course, you don't have to read everything in order, but its worth it all the same. Some of my all-time favorite stories in this volume of the collection are "The Red-Headed League," and "The Adventure of the Speckled Band." Also worth a read are the ... Read More 
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