Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes Book Review

A Game of Shadows is the newest installment in the Sherlock Holmes movie franchise, which is hitting theaters this holiday season. With all its fantastical special effects and - to be sure - brilliant acting, will it do justice to its source?  

Perhaps the movie will fan the love for the Sherlock Holmes series into a widespread desire to read the original? The ebook is being downloaded online heavily - we can only hope that the flashy special effects and action of the film won’t detract from the brilliance and subtlety of Doyle’s original tales. 

A masked man visits Holmes, resulting in a botched betrothal, a missing photograph, and some sweet Sherlock disguises. 

A mysterious news ad calling all red-headed men leads Holmes on a chase - to an artificial knee company, and beyond!   

A trust fund, a missing fiancee, another botched wedding - it’s no problem for Mr. Holmes. 

A murdered landowner, blackmail, and some serious forensic work by our man Sherlock. 

A “suicide,” mysterious locked trunks, and a strange letter with the initials “K.K.K.” arrive with 5 orange pips (those are orange seeds, fyi). 

An opium den, a missing hubby, and a dead hobo - no match for Holmes! 

A battered hat, a Christmas goose, and a blue carbuncle (aka, type of gem)... Sherlock can’t resist a case like this. 

A dead sister and a haunted house with exotic pets - this one Doyle produced as a play. 

This is one in which Holmes doesn’t catch the bad guys - but has greed, kidnap, and crime all rolled into one! Oh, and a missing thumb of course. 

A disappeared Lord, an Apache attack, and wedding dress floating in a river. It’s go time for Sherlock. 

When a few crown jewels go missing, the suspect is obvious - or is it? 

A woman takes a position as a governess at the Copper Beeches, a manor with some very strange requests for a young woman.