The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes

The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes followers is detective duo Holmes and Watson who live together during the 1880s in London at 221b Baker Street. Holmes is irrational at times and is a drug addict nevertheless he’s incredibly smart and uses deductive reasoning and science to solve his cases. Watson is a semi-retired military doctor, acts as a voice of reason to Holmes, and is often the narrator of the story; however three of the stories in this collection are narrated by Holmes; “The Adventure of The Mazarin Stone”, “The Blanched Soldier”, and “The Lion’s Mane”. The stories that are narrated by Holmes seem more personal and nonsensical in some ways and show how Sherlock thinks and are written in a different style which is why some people believe that The Mazarin Stone may not have been written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes and Watson have different narrative styles, Holmes is a less reliable narrator due to his drug use and focuses more on dialogue rather than description. The collection of shorter stories were interesting, they weren’t long enough to be their own book but at the same time, they had enough to get that Sherlock Holmes feel. I also found it interesting how some stories didn’t have Watson as the narrator and really shook things up. The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes is a wonderful collection of shorter stories and gives more mysteries in one book, highly recommended to Sherlock Holmes fans.