The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

What can I say. Very exciting, fun and entertaining. And then Sherlock came out! Complete with Sherlock's website and Dr Watson's blog! Great stuff. I was really in the mood for it having read this book so recently!

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

I read this the way it was meant to be read. As a little girl, on holiday in the Ardennes, with rumours of a child kidnapper in the air. No, I don't think that is the way it was meant to be read ... be patient! Anyway, we were in a big, rambling farmhouse. The owner remembered that he had some old magazines in English in the attic somewhere. So off he went - and returned with two or three bound folders, full of original copies of The Strand. A very interesting magazine, I was soon devouring every page of it ... and more so when I started reading the serialised account of The Hound of the Baskervilles! It was a beautifully hot and sunny Belgian summer, and I could hear my parents looking for me, to go outside for a walk down to the bridge or to play outside, but there I was, lying upstairs on my bed, head in dusty old magazines, and imagination far away on English moors.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

I loved Agatha Christie, and her easy style and denoument resonate somewhat with Sherlock Holmes. I enjoyed the Scarlet Cord short story (don't think that was the correct title, though!) The one with the slippery customer ...