Sherlock Holmes question (books)

[GodlessAstronomer]

Having never read them I downloaded the complete works of Arthur Conan Doyle and started reading Sherlock. When I got to the end of the first book (Study in Scarlet), Sherlock solved the case and then it moved on to On the Great Alkali Plain without explaining how he reached his conclusions. Is this revealed in later books? I don't want to keep reading if the rest of the books don't reveal how conclusions are reached :/

 

[Mo0o]

The mast majority are short stories with explanations

 

[aceO07]

I believe that On the Great Alkali Plain is actually a part of the story. It gives you the background to the mystery. There's a few long novels also that have an equally long story inside of it.

 

[HydroSqueegee]

I believe that On the Great Alkali Plain is actually a part of the story. It gives you the background to the mystery. There's a few long novels also that have an equally long story inside of it.

ding ding! winnar!

i need to go back and read through them all again. its been a little over a year since i finished the last couple stories. Excellent stuff.

 

[imported_noonedoes]

I believe that On the Great Alkali Plain is actually a part of the story. It gives you the background to the mystery. There's a few long novels also that have an equally long story inside of it.

He is correct. That is the second part of a Study in Scarlet. It gives background information about the murderer and the suspect. Almost all the novels and short stories conclude with Holmes giving out his analysis.

 

[Drako]

Most if not all of the stories end with Holmes explaining to Watson how he managed to solve the crime.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

I believe that On the Great Alkali Plain is actually a part of the story. It gives you the background to the mystery. There's a few long novels also that have an equally long story inside of it.

Awesome, thanks The eBook collection I bought (for a whopping $1 on Amazon) doesn't make it clear where the books end/begin. Read the first 3 chapters of On the Great Alkali Plain on the train this morning. Loving Arthur Conan Doyle so far!

 

[DaveSimmons]

Awesome, thanks The eBook collection I bought (for a whopping $1 on Amazon) doesn't make it clear where the books end/begin. Read the first 3 chapters of On the Great Alkali Plain on the train this morning. Loving Arthur Conan Doyle so far!

FYI if you're feeling cheap, you can save $1 on future purchases by getting out-of-copyright books like this from Project Gutenberg for free. The estate isn't getting any part of the $1.

It could still be worth it to save the extra steps, especially with a 3G kindle where you can get the book from Amazon when you're away from a PC.

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

Awesome, thanks The eBook collection I bought (for a whopping $1 on Amazon) doesn't make it clear where the books end/begin. Read the first 3 chapters of On the Great Alkali Plain on the train this morning. Loving Arthur Conan Doyle so far!

You know, they're in the Public Domain. You can download them off Gutenberg, or anywhere else, for free.

 

[D1gger]

I just downloaded the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes from Amazon for free. Not sure why the charged you for the book.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

FYI if you're feeling cheap, you can save $1 on future purchases by getting out-of-copyright books like this from Project Gutenberg for free. The estate isn't getting any part of the $1.

It could still be worth it to save the extra steps, especially with a 3G kindle where you can get the book from Amazon when you're away from a PC.

Yeah it's so slick and easy to pay the $1 with Amazon 1-click and having it magically beamed to my Kindle, I don't care about a buck.

 

[HAL9000]

I believe that On the Great Alkali Plain is actually a part of the story. It gives you the background to the mystery. There's a few long novels also that have an equally long story inside of it.

He is correct. That is the second part of a Study in Scarlet. It gives background information about the murderer and the suspect. Almost all the novels and short stories conclude with Holmes giving out his analysis.

These, carry on reading, they are incredible. Holmes is my favourite fictional character.

 

[alkemyst]

Yeah it's so slick and easy to pay the $1 with Amazon 1-click and having it magically beamed to my Kindle, I don't care about a buck.

yet they are fucking you for a buck.

 

[aceO07]

'The Valley of Fear' is another good Sherlock Holmes mystery that has a story within a story.

I got most of the stories from Gutenberg, though I think I missed a few. I've read all of the ones I found, but I've also seen a few referenced at the Sherlock Holmes museum that I don't think I've read. Unfortunately I can't recall what stories those were...

 

[frostedflakes]

Yeah it's so slick and easy to pay the $1 with Amazon 1-click and having it magically beamed to my Kindle, I don't care about a buck.

Amazon (at least their US site) also has free Kindle downloads for the Sherlock Holmes novels and short stories. They're all Project Gutenberg scans, though, so there will be the occasional OCR error, missing pictures/maps/diagrams and other content, etc. Sometimes with the paid versions people go through and fix these errors and omissions.

 

[Born2bwire]

You know, they're in the Public Domain. You can download them off Gutenberg, or anywhere else, for free.

Yeah, but with the Amazon versions you can get a table of contents which is really valuable with a collection of 50+ short stories and 4 novels.

But I just realized that the $2 version that I got from Amazon does not include "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box." Fuckers.

 

[Drako]

yet they are fucking you for a buck.

Umm, yeah, no

You are actually getting the Book and Story dissertation for that almighty dollar.

You can buy all of the books and short stories separately for free, that is true.

However, there is some value added for some people with these compilations.

 

[Aluvus]

Yeah, but with the Amazon versions you can get a table of contents which is really valuable with a collection of 50+ short stories and 4 novels.

But I just realized that the $2 version that I got from Amazon does not include "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box." Fuckers.

Project Gutenberg books also include a (linked) table of contents, at least the ePub (which Kindle can't read) and HTML versions.

 

[Born2bwire]

Project Gutenberg books also include a (linked) table of contents, at least the ePub (which Kindle can't read) and HTML versions.

Well I bought it for two reasons. The first being that it was all in one as opposed to what I found on Gutenberg was still split up into the original publications (Four separate novels and then the separate collections of short stories). Second being that I did not find a version that had a linked table of contents. Now, maybe the ePub did, I was using the Kindle version (mobi) and there are multiple versions of the books. I just didn't find it in the amount of time that I was willing to spend. Christ, a buck or two is worth saving the time. Plus I was able to get a preview and compared a few of the compilations available from the Kindle store to choose the one that I preferred in terms of formating and table of contents.

I was also happy to see that the images in "The Adventure of the Dancing Men" were also properly reproduced in my copy as well. I recall that some of the free copies omitted these pictures.

EDIT: For similar reasons I also chose to purchase a copy of Dante's Divine Comedy instead of using the Gutenberg offerings. Yes, it is the same translation as was offered but I did not find one that suited my tastes in terms of formating and table of contents. So I was willing to shell out a buck for the paid version. In contrast, I do have free versions of "The Affair at Styles," "The Republic," "A Christmas Carol," and other novels. It's just that for something that is a large compilation I prefer to spend the odd dollar or two to get a properly linked table of contents since navigating blind through an e-book on the Kindle is still a terrible task.