Well, I started out the year with a very good choice of books. I enjoyed this one so much that I went looking for more -- and found it!
I've always liked the Sherlock Holmes movies, and I've seen many adaptations of Sir Doyles's works in various television shows, but for whatever reason, I've never read any of them. Now, I intend to read all of them. it may take a couple of years but I'll do it.
A friend has the "Pocket Classics" version of this book and he got it out to look for a couple of passages of which I had taken particular notice. We could not find them and in fact read through most of the small paperback looking for them. Much was left out in the interest of brevity and after reading the full text it seemed they had really hacked up the book. I recommend the full text.