I've been an avid reader since I can remember. Always had my nose stuck in some book constantly. Sometime in my teenage years, my mom bought me The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection and Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Series.

I read through Carroll's first, because frankly I'd seen enough of the old Sherlock Holmes shows with my grandparents. He wasn't very interesting to me, where as Carroll's series was an absolutely wild and wacky fever dream that was absolutely entertaining.

So, when I finally did pick the collection up, I found myself exceptionally surprised. Doyle's colorful character had been completely butchered and sterilized in modern media. Sherlock was so much more than a heady intellectual with a pipe and deerstalker hat. I became just as enraptured with Sherlock as I had been with Alice.

Doyle's stories made such an impression on me, that every year since then, I read the collection all over again. They never loose their charm or excitement. It's always hard to stop reading, especially when Sherlock has solved the riddle.

The books have been with me so long now, the pages have begun to yellow. The corners are folded or missing. Even so, I love the books to no end, and I plan on keeping this tradition for a long time.

So, what book(s) make you keep coming back time and time again?

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#Who is Sherlock Holmes?

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887. He investigates crimes, usually murders, with his friend, companion, and sometimes flatmate, Dr John Watson.

In the original canon, Sherlock featured in 56 short stories and four novels. Since then, many other authors have written more stories featuring Holmes.

From 1891-1927, most Holmes stories were published in Strand magazine. A lot of people subscribed to the magazine just to read them.

In 1893, Doyle finally killed off his detective in the novel “The Final Problem”. Sherlock plunged to his death over the Reichenbach falls, taking his hated nemesis, Dr Moriarty, with him.

#But why did Doyle want to kill off Holmes?

To put it bluntly, he wanted to write “better things”. Aka more serious stuff that (in his eyes) would increase his standing in the literary world. He thought Holmes was “a Lower Stratum of Literary Achievement”

As he wrote his mother in 1891:” “I think of slaying Holmes… and winding him up for good and all. He takes my mind from better things.”

His mother replied: “You won’t! You can’t! You mustn’t!”

If Sherlock fans had known about his plans, they would’ve reacted the exact same way.

When the Final Problem was finally published, there was a great furore.

#The Dreadful Event

In response to Holmes’s death, more than 20,000 Strand readers cancelled their subscriptions. The magazine barely survived. Staff called it “the dreadful event”.

The magazine was flooded with hate mail, directed at Doyle. One woman called him a “brute”. Even Americans protested, starting “Let’s Keep Holmes Alive” fanclubs. There’s a legend that Londoners wore black armbands to mourn the legendary detective.

Doyle remained aloof. He wrote to a friend, stating:” ["I couldn't revive him if I

Did you know that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- the famed author of Sherlock Holmes -- was once tasked to solve a real life crime? The case involved a savage murder, stolen jewelry, an international manhunt, and a wily maidservant who went to her grave knowing far more about the killing than she had revealed...

But I'm getting ahead of myself. So let's get our pipes and funny hats and start from the beginning.

The murdah

At 82 years old, and living in one of the wealthy neighborhoods of Glasgow (West Princes Street), Marion Gilchrist had a quiet life. She lived alone, but for her hired help, a maid named Helen Lambie.

On December 21st, 1908, Lambie left Gilchrist alone “to fetch the evening newspaper.” Just after 7:00 PM someone came into Gilchrist’s house, attacked, and beat the elderly woman to death.

According to Lambie, she returned from her errand in time to hear a noise in the house then see a man rushing down the stairs. She then found her employer dead on the dining room floor. Papers in the house were “ransacked.” Money lying in plain sight was untouched, as was a substantial jewelry collection.

The only thing missing was a diamond brooch.

Lambie alerted the authorities. A doctor identified a chair leg as the murder weapon. There was no sign of forced entry.

Befuddled and corrupt police just wanted a suspect

Given the lack of forced entry, police assumed Gilchrist had known the attacker. Within 5 days, the authorities arrested a suspect: Oscar Slater. Lambie even identified him as the man she’d seen running out of the house that night.

Slater, a 36-year-old Jewish man, was a bit of a traveler. He’d previously lived in New York, Paris, Brussels, and Glasgow. He and his wife had rented a flat near Gilchrist’s home.

Being short on money, Slater had apparently pawned a brooch of his own earlier that month.

The police found out about the pawned brooch when Slater tried to sell the slip for a ticket to America. They saw a suspect attempting to flee the country. However, Lambie was asked to identify the brooch in the pawnshop. She said it wasn’t the stolen item.

The police were undeterred. Despite not being one, they suspected Slater of being a pimp since the man’s wife had worked at a music hall and was thought to “entertain men at home in [her husband’s] absence.” Oh and according to reports, they had stated:

>“All murders are committed by undesirables; Oscar Slater is an undesirable; therefore, Oscar Slater committed the

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>It was late that night when Holmes returned from his solitary excursion. We slept in a double-bedded room, which was the best that the little country inn could do for us. I was already asleep when I was partly awakened by his entrance.
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>“Well, Holmes,” I murmured, “have you found anything out?”
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>He stood beside me in silence, his candle in his hand. Then the tall, lean figure inclined towards me. “I say, Watson,” he whispered, “would you be afraid to sleep in the same room with a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot whose mind has lost its grip?”
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>“Not in the least,” I answered in astonishment.
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>“Ah, that’s lucky,” he said, and not another word would he utter that night.
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>- The Valley of Fear

Here what the fuck was with this scene?? Like iirc it’s not touched upon later at all? Like not really?? It’s so ?? Can some explain me pls?

Only iterations of arthur conan doyles sherlock holmes not fan stories