![]() ![]() It’s expensive, yes, but this is a book to cherish and keep, to pass on to the next generation to remind them of the greatest master of the detective genre. Now the Folio Society, publishers of exquisitely presented classics, quarter-bound in blocked cloth with blocked cloth case sides – the way proper books used to be – has produced a collection of ten of the very best of the 56 Sherlock short stories with a thoughtful introduction by Baker Street Irregular Michael Dirda and a series of contemporary and unsettling illustrations by Max Löffler. Twice after his career had been definitely terminated by the author, Holmes was brought back to fictional life by public demand, so great was reader appetite for these superlative narratives of the solution of crime by minute deductive reasoning. What is there left to say about the Sherlock Holmes phenomenon? An unrealistic and overdramatised TV series revealed Conan Doyle’s brilliant, if flawed, consulting detective to a new generation, but in truth Sherlock, despite what may or may not have happened at Reichenbach Falls, has never gone away. ![]()
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