Anyone interested in a group read?

I'm new here. My real name is Michal.

With all the Sherlock films and TV productions out in the last three years,I thought it might be interesting to revisit the original stories.

Just curious if anyone would like to discuss the stories? For fun, to compare notes, and share quotes.

we could just start at the beginning: A Study in Scarlet.

What do you think?

Hmm, doesn't seem to be much of a response here yet. I am slowly making my way through reading the whole canon and am currently on The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (and will probably be there for a while based on the progress I've made so far). I'd be happy to chime in when you get up to that part of the series!

A remarkable tale. Doyle had crafted the story somewhat earlier with a different named pair of sleuths, but this version was expanded to be both a historical novel (Doyle thought of himself as a historical novelist) and a detective story. The first Holmes tale was a Western!! And its fun to see that Jefferson Hope morphed into Jeff Hope in Sherlock, both cabbies in London, both murdering via poison pills. Study is the vital first reading in the cannon. With the recent raid and prosecution of the founder of one of the many "traditional" lds groups in the last 2 years, the subject of forced participation in plural marriage in Mormon communities is just as topical today as when Doyle penned it. Many of his later stories lacked spark, and element that riveted the reader's attention, but this story works at both the historical and contemporary (Victorian) level.