[Long Cut]

if we're talking about detective stories, my absolute favorites have always been the grandaddy of them all...Arthur Conan Doyle's immortal Sherlock Holmes. Mrs. Cut just finished reading a compendium of all the Holmes stories and novels she found in a bargain bin for five bucks, hardcover. I can't wait to get home on leave to read it myself.

I've got a weakness for those old, Victorian-era tales.

[Trinity_Tx]

Then make sure to read Wilke Collins - Moonstone, Woman in White, No Name... Truly wonderful classic mystery/detective novels - some say the original. : )

[AnAmericanMother]

I was a very serious Holmesian for awhile, member of the Goose Club of the Alpha Inn and a correspondent with the editor of the Baker Street Journal.

My favorite will always be The Hound of the Baskervilles.

Have you read Conan Doyle's other works, specifically his historical novels? I think you would really like The White Company and Sir Nigel - sagas of an English mercenary company in the 14th century French wars. He also did a couple of hysterically funny first person accounts of the Napoleonic Wars by an impossibly vain French brigadier of Hussars . . . The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard - and a couple of oddball novels about Monmouth's Rising (Micah Clarke) and boxing in the days of the Regency (Rodney Stone). I think I have read everything Conan Doyle ever wrote (except for his abominable books on spiritualism.)