From A Scandal in Bohemia in which Sherlock Holmes is famously outwitted bya woman the captivating Irene Adler to The Five Orange Pips in which themaster detect... » 

From A Scandal in Bohemia in which Sherlock Holmes is famously outwitted bya woman the captivating Irene Adler to The Five Orange Pips in which themaster detective is pitted against the Ku Klux Klan to The Final Problem inwhich Holmes and his archenemy Professor Moriarty face each other in ashowdown at the Reichenbach Falls the stories that appear in The Adventuresand Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes bear witness to the flowering of author ArthurConan Doyles genius. The plain fact the celebrated mystery writer VincentStarrett asserted is that Sherlock Holmes is still a more commanding figurein the world than most of the warriors and statesmen in whose present existencewe are invited to believe. «