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The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Hardcover – January 1, 1993

by Arthur Conan DOYLE (Author)
Sherlock Holmes Collection.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0895775522
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ The World's Best Reading/The Reader's Digest Association
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 1, 1993
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ Not a First Edition.
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 219 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780895775528
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0895775528
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.41 pounds

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859 and died in 1930. Within those years was crowded a variety of activity and creative work that made him an international figure and inspired the French to give him the epithet 'the good giant'. He was the nephew of 'Dickie Doyle' the artist, and was educated at Stonyhurst, and later studied medicine at Edinburgh University, where the methods of diagnosis of one of the professors provided the idea for the methods of deduction used by Sherlock Holmes.

He set up as a doctor at Southsea and it was while waiting for patients that he began to write. His growing success as an author enabled him to give up his practice and turn his attention to other subjects. He was a passionate advocate of many causes, ranging from divorce law reform and the Channel Tunnel to the issuing of inflatable life-jackets to sailors. He also campaigned to prove the innocence of individuals, and his work on the Edjalji case was instrumental in the introduction of the Court of Criminal Appeal. He was a volunteer physician in the Boer War and later in life became a convert to spiritualism.

His greatest achievement was, of course, his creation of Sherlock Holmes, who soon attained international status and constantly distracted him from his other work; at one time Conan Doyle killed him but was obliged by public protest to restore him to life. And in his creation of Dr Watson, Holmes's companion in adventure and chronicler, Conan Doyle produced not only a perfect foil for Holmes but also one of the most famous narrators in fiction. Penguin publish all the books about the great detective, A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, The Valley of Fear, His Last Bow, The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, The Uncollected Sherlock Holmes and The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes.

Photo by Walter Benington (RR Auction) [US Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

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  • Penny
    5.0 out of 5 stars Stories not in the "Complete Works" set
    Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2013
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    I already owned what is widely accepted as the Canon of Sherlock Holmes, which includes 4 novels and 56 short stories. What drew me to this book is that it contains 4 stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle that are not included in the "Complete Set" books. These stories are: "The Field Bazaar", "The Lost Special", "The Man with the Watches", and "How Watson Learned the Trick". The book is also a very handsome piece to add to any Holmes collection. I am well pleased with my purchase.
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  • Darlene Petri
    5.0 out of 5 stars More Holmes by Thom
    Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2017
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    Well I like any Sherlock Holmes story I have read (so far) and this book is no exception. The stories in this book are true to the spirit of Conan Doyle's hero and very enjoyable. Well written and enjoyable even I think without the Holmes name being mentioned. So much the better for being about and in spirit the estimable of Sherlock Holmes.
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  • rwsheets7
    5.0 out of 5 stars Exactly what I wanted
    Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2013
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    This was perfect for the price. It is exactly what I was looking for and looks nice too. I bought all of the Sherlock series in this format and did not spend much. I would definitely recommend
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  • Perceptive Reader
    4.0 out of 5 stars Not pastiche, but apocrypha!
    Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2012
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    The first thing that struck me about this book was the loving care and research that had been made by Richard Lancelyn Green in coming up with this collection of apocryphal Sherlock Holmes stories. This is not a collection of Sherlockian pastiches in the present sense, because the authors had, most painstakingly, tried to write Sherlock Holmes stories as they were written by Sire Arthur Conan Doyle, and NOT their own stories using the canonical characters. Hence, the stories refrain from taking any liberties with the traits of the characters. They are gentle, and on many occasion very much reminiscent of the fact that Sire Arthur had written his stories strictly as per the norms of literary entertainment that was followed & encouraged in late Victorian era. The contents are: -
    (*) Introduction: a really authoritative & informative piece from the editor.
    1) The Adventure of The First-Class Carriage by Ronald A. Knox
    2) The Adventure of the Sheffield Banker by Arthur Whitaker
    3) The Adventure of the Unique Hamlet by Vincent Starrett
    4) The Adventure of the Marked Man by Stuart Palmer
    5) The Adventure of the Megatherium Thefts by S.C. Roberts
    6) The Adventure of the Trained Cormorant by W.R. Duncan Macmillan
    7) The Adventure of Arnsworth Castle by Adrian Conan Doyle
    8) The Adventure of the Tired Captain by Alan Wilson
    9) The Adventure of the Green Empress by F.P. Cillie
    10) The Adventure of the Purple Hand by D.O. Smith
    11) The Adventure of Hillerman Hill by Julian Symons

    Not all the stories are of equal merit, and quite a few are remakes of plot-devices & twists described in the canon itself. But overall, this is a really enjoyable book if you are more of a traditional Sherlockian, and would like to stay away from Holmes-meets-modern evil (The House of Silk: A Sherlock Holmes Novel), Holmes-meets-monsters (Gaslight Arcanum: Uncanny Tales of Sherlock Holmes) or Holmes-as-swashbuckling hero (Guy Ritchie films). Recommended.
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  • XINYI HUANG
    5.0 out of 5 stars Seems like this book comes from a library because I found ...
    Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2015
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    Seems like this book comes from a library because I found a paper pocket glued inside the cover...
    But this is a good version to collect!
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  • CLP/CAP
    5.0 out of 5 stars ... the collection now on my shelves and it looks great.
    Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2015
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    The last book of the collection now on my shelves and it looks great.
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  • Robert H
    5.0 out of 5 stars Recommended
    Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2015
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    Bought this to read on vacation. Great stories.
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  • Kevin Killian
    5.0 out of 5 stars Magisterial
    Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2006
    Poor Richard Lancelyn Green! I knew his name through the scandal headlines that surrounded his death two years back, a suicide which he tried to stage as a murder, hoping or so it seems to cast a sinister light on the family of Conan Doyle and their auction of period Holmes memorabilia at Christie's which he, RLG, thought should have been disposed of elsewhere. And laboring in the shadow of his far better known father Roger Lancelyn Green, it can't have been easy. In any case it's great that at least one of his anthologies, THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, will keep his name alive in a positive way.

    I don't understand why he changed the names of stories while presenting them here. Why bother retitling Adrian Conan Doyle's story "The Red Widow"? Is his own title, "The Adventure of Ainsworth Castle," any more thrilling? Surely it's misleading to present the famous story by Arthur Whittaker, "The Case Of The Man Who Was Wanted" under a title like "The Adventure of the Sheffield Banker." Please! Whittaker's tale isn't very good, but it has the historic distinction of having been mistaken for an actual Sherlock Holmes story (for it was found among Conan Doyle's papers) and published under the Master's name by misguided scholars in 1948. SC Roberts also has his title changed. I guess Lancelyn Green wanted them all to be called "The Adventure of . . ." and felt no compunction about renaming these old chestnuts where they didn't fit the bill. A small point, but one perhaps illustrative of the sometimes magisterial nature of the man's character.

    Otherwise you couldn't ask for a more interesting smapling of Holmes pastiche. The Stuart Palmer story is good, and an unexpected choice considering that its companion, "The Remarkable Worm" is far better known. "The Adventure of the Trained Cormorant," formerly known as plain "Holmes in Scotland," is a splendid reconstruction of one of the cases mysteriously alluded to by Watson in one of the canonical tales. Maybe I'm the only fan in the world who's not blown away by D O Smith, and I'll try reading more of Smith's work to catch the vibe, but I was less than overwhelmed by reading the tedious "Adventure of the Purple Hand," which seems padded out to twice its optimum length. However, many fans whose opinions I respect swear by Smith and I'll read some more before I put that baby to bed. Take it all and all, a fine anthology and a nice way to remember poor old Richard Lancelyn Green.
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  • Rajnandan Patnaik
    5.0 out of 5 stars Further Adventures of Sherlock
    Reviewed in India on July 25, 2021
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    Seems a little stretched, but overall another Sherlock Holmes book that excites the reader nonetheless. Nice read.
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  • Mr. Vernon B. Mason
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 11, 2014
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    The book was received quickly, and although it was supposed to have been used, it seems to be as new. It completes the set that I bought recently, so I'm more than happy.
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  • "The Godfather"
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 28, 2018
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    Great book
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  • "Computer, Give Me Manual !.."
    3.0 out of 5 stars Well researched, shame about the stories..
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 19, 2011
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    Bit of a tricky one to review, and I'm still not certain as to the appropriate star rating. This book should perhaps be regarded as two separate things, first - and perhaps foremost - as a worthwhile literary project, and second as a straightforward anthology of short stories.
    In its first capacity I think the book succeeds admirably, bringing together many of the better known Holmes pastiches and providing a commendable amount of background information on how and when each individual story came to be written. This is all covered in the lengthy but highly readable introduction, which also contains snippets of interesting Holmes/Doyle trivia and history without boring the reader.
    So far so good, and all the above would merit a four star rating if it weren't for the actual stories themselves which, in my honest opinion, vary in quality from not bad (a tiny minority) through mediocre to downright awful. As I say, this is only my opinion, but I repeatedly found myself really hoping that the next story would be an improvement on the one I was reading, and in this I was usually disappointed.
    Although I have read and enjoyed all Conan Doyle's original short stories I should explain that I am no fanatical devotee, so my criticism of this collection is not "cover aversion syndrome", or a knee-jerk objection to other writers having a bash. It's just that most of these stories are simply poor. Plot holes and shallow storylines, cardboard characterisations, unconvincing dialogue and shockingly contrived solutions are all here in depressing abundance.
    I almost wish I had stopped reading after the introduction, because far from rekindling my enjoyment most of these stories just irritated me, but to be fair one or two aren't bad, and I guess it was at least interesting to compare all the stories and their authors' styles with each other, as well as with the originals.
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