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(In association with Amazon.com)  Format: Kindle Book Label: Public Domain Books Manufacturer: Public Domain Books Publication Date: March 01, 1999 Publisher: Public Domain Books Release Date: March 01, 1999 Studio: Public Domain Books Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Great book - a classic bookI love the stories, and will read the others, but I found them a little too simple for an adult. Maybe it's because I'm used to something more intricate, maybe I read these as a child and I just don't rememberit - and the answers are already in my head. While I wasn't as smart as Holmes, it was close. I guess I expected something more challenging. Besides what seems like obvious outcomes, even for me (i.e. I don't like to try to solve the ending, I like the ride), I did find the reader and the writing/stories ... Read More Rating:  - Good, but what's the big dealNumerical corruption and 140 year old english aside, this is a pretty good book, but I prefer my crime mysteries to present the facts so that I might be able to solve it as well. Sherlock Holmes would be much more a hero in my mind if all of the evidence was presented, and yet it was still difficult to solve the issue at hand. An entertaining read, nonetheless. Rating:  - Short stories for short attention spansBonus points to The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes for being a free kindle book and for being one of the greatest firsts of its kind. That being said, the quality of the book is not quiet as "timeless" as I had hoped. I read Sherlock Holmes right after finishing Treasure Island and before that, Around the World in 80 Days. Needless to say, these other "classics" I had picked up were more impressive than I could have imagined and easily hold their own to anything written in modern adventure/thriller novels. ... Read More Rating: - Great value for readers looking only for The Adventures of Sherlock HolmesThis Kindle freebie is great for readers who are only keen to read the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The stories contained within this title are: A Scandal in Bohemia The Red-Headed League A Case of Identity The Boscombe Valley Mystery The Five Orange Pips The Man with the Twisted Lip The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle The Adventure of the Speckled Band The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor The Adventure ... Read More Rating:  - Incomplete and with poor formatting!I had finished reading this edition before I realized it was incomplete. The Bedford Park edition The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection, with attractive cover illustration of London Bridge, is a much better edition overall, with proper formatting of numbers, and contains all of the Sherlock Holmes stories and novels. It was extremely annoying to encounter strange symbols every time a number is mentioned, and to be forced to decipher badly-formatted html to figure out what number was being stated. Also, a variety ... Read More 
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