2008-02-10 Excellence as standard with Holmes as good as ever

There is a general feeling - refelcted in reviews here, and in the "sherlockian" world that these are somehow inferior stories to those in the earlier collections. I can't agree, take the "Illustrious Client", "Creeping Man" and "Thor Bridge" are all as gripping and exciting as anything Conan-Doyle ever wrote. These stories originally published in 1927 all reflect the victorian era of the other stories and run at fast pace.
I've chosen to review this particular edition as it is not only the edition that started me off on Holmes but is a delightful take on the Penguin standard format of paperbacks.
The books are of normal Penguin quality, that is "throwaway" paper bound strongly. It's unclear as to why Penguin didn't use Green as their traditional crime paperback colour - but one of the happy accidents is that this looks great on the shelf next to the collected Richard Hannay as well as the recently published Penguin celebrations.

If i've gone on about the format I'm sorry, but you can't review a Holmes story without revealing the endings!