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I'd suggest just going for the complete set.

Here's volume 1 for $9: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/mobile/w/complete-sherlock-holmes-volume-i-arthur-conan-doyle/1100318390

For the same price you can get all of the stories rather than just "the best." Then you can read them through in any order you like.

Edit: further clarification.

For the short stories, which are an excellent way to start, try A Scandal in Bohemia and The Speckled Band, along with the rest of the Adventures. You can find them online freely: Kindle/e-reader: https://standardebooks.org/collections/sherlock-holmes/

Text: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1661/1661-h/1661-h.htm

Any way? I mean, you could buy the ebook from Amazon.

Yes, they are all really good! - as the supporting actors always are in the show. The dour duchess (an unsympathetic crime victim if ever there was one) played by the fantastic Rosalind Knight, the twinkly Commissioner Peterson, the hapless John Horner and his tremulous wife Jenny, dear old Henry Baker, the jovial landlord of the Alpha Inn, the hilarious Breckenridge and the snivelling James Ryder... perfect Christmas fodder. Rosalie Williams' Mrs Hudson gets one corker of a line too :-)

The gold standard used to be Baring-Gould's 2 volume set, but I much prefer The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, edited by Leslie S. Klinger. It's 3 volumes (2 for the short stories and 1 for the novels). The Klinger edition feels more relevant for me and also, it looks gorgeous on the shelf (I know! so shallow, but I can't help it). As pretty as the B&N collection is, I'd go with a true annotated version.

Everything is my cup of tea. I've heard good things about Moriarty and the Hound of the D'Urbervilles but haven't yet picked up a copy... Saw some Holmes vs. Vampires comics at the shop last time but didn't pick them up.

Have you read the Houdini one yet?

I own more novels and short story pastiches/homages than comics, but I'm always looking for new stuff. My Holmes collection is forever growing. I really like the graphic novel adaptations done by Ian Edginton. If you're looking for original stories then I'd recommend Leah Moore's Dynamite Entertainment work. I also have a few 'shippy works as well, but that's not everybody's cup of tea.

It comes on January 19th but you can download the chrome or firefox extension Media Hint and watch it on BBCs iPlayer You need to download the extension so that it thinks that you are in the UK.

That looks like a beautiful set. However, one of the reviewers says it's missing Paget's illustrations and if it's missing Paget I would suspect it is missing the other illustrators as well. Someone else says the set contains the illustrations so I have no idea if it has all or just some (or none) of the illustrations. You can always ask a question on Amazon which I highly recommend. If you're looking for all the illustrations, very few collections have them. Some will have Sidney Paget's illustrations, but they won't have the other illustrators. Some collections will say they are complete but will only have the complete stories with Paget's drawings (not even all 56 short stories) or will have the complete short stories or just the complete novels. I hope you find exactly what you're looking for. Good luck!

I do have a one volume book that contains all the short stories and the novels plus the illustrations from all the illustrators (Sidney Paget was just one of the illustrators). It is called The Complete Illustrated Sherlock Holmes. It is the size of a normal hardcover book although a bit thicker because it is around 1100 pages. This is by far my favorite of my collection (I have many complete editions). However, the print is smallish (although it is the same as what is found in Klinger's books and Baring-Gould's books). The rough dimensions are 64mm thick (2.5 inches); 242mm tall (9.5 inches); 159mm wide (6.25 inches). Hopefully I did the conversion correctly; I'm an American.

I have the William Baring-Gould's and Leslie Klinger's Annotated volumes and they are quite large. Excellent reading, but quite large.

And two days later on October 20th it's available on Blu-ray at Amazon. ;) http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00XOAPFH6/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=3OT51NXJ719Q9&coliid=I3MRHLSUM3EKML

I know this isn't the complete set, but I started with The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes which has the original copies from The Strand magazine of 37 stories and the Hound of the Baskervilles. These include all the original illustrations by Sidney Paget. I've only had to buy a couple other books to finish my collection after buying this one and it's still my favorite go to Sherlock book.

https://www.amazon.com/Original-Illustrated-Sherlock-Holmes/dp/0890090572

I would recommend looking for the novels and regular collections (ie The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, etc), particularly since you mentioned that you want something lighter.

For example, SeaWolf Press did the 100th anniversary reprints of the collections a few years ago. This is a link to The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

They are illustrated and the typeface is not difficult to read. They mention which previous edition they used as well. They are found on Amazon so shipping would be free if you buy a few at a time too. Perhaps get one of them the next time you buy from Amazon so that you can check out the publisher yourself. Then, if you like them, you can get the rest or consider some other options if you don't.

Actually the rest of the BBC Radio plays adapted by Bert Coules are quite enjoyable (they also adapted the 4 Holmes novels).

One other set that I thought was particularly enjoyable- also available on Audible- was Sherlock Holmes' Rediscovered Railway Stories. https://www.audible.com/pd/Benedict-Cumberbatch-Reads-Sherlock-Holmes-Rediscovered-Railway-Stories-Audiobook/B013HJWP1M

Haven't heard those, but I rather enjoy those by Jim French Productions.

https://www.audible.com/pd/Further-Adventures-of-Sherlock-Holmes-Audiobook/B07HBC1QX3?qid=1551934995&sr=1-1&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=e81b7c27-6880-467a-b5a7-13cef5d729fe&pf_rd_r=QM656W1KZNPS7G01KK56&

I don't own a copy, but the B&N edition (link here) looks good every time I see it in the store. I prefer an ebook edition so I just read it on my Nook. I also have the Bantam paperback two-volume edition.

Since the Holmes canon is in the public domain, Librivox has several recordings of the various collections, one of which would probably be to your liking, and all of them are free.

I don't know what the process is. But I'm fairly sure that you will have to pay a licensing fee, so if you want to make the book free, you're going to be losing money. Potentially a lot of money if your version of the books gets a lot of downloads.

This is why you can find countless free versions of the canon on Kindle/Nook/iBooks/Kobo that don't feature The Case-Book, but the copies that do include it always cost a few bucks. My copy of it was $2.99 from Kobobooks.com and includes all the stories and the illustrations. Barnes and Noble has a huge hardcover version of the stories that is called "The Greatest Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", it costs $5 and doesn't include The Case-Book. But the version that does include The Case-Book is $18.

There are three volumes, but the first volume is the best.

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/New-Annotated-Sherlock-Holmes-non-slipcased/dp/0393059146/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=annotated+sherlock+holmes&qid=1624030156&sr=8-3

Book Depository: https://www.bookdepository.com/New-Annotated-Sherlock-Holmes-v-1-Sir-Arthur-Conan-Doyle/9780393059144?ref=grid-view&qid=1624030179932&sr=1-3

I had the same problem and decided to go with that one. It's portable, complete (I found a collection in which the case book is missing), it's affordable and nice looking.

https://www.amazon.de/Sherlock-Holmes-6-Book-Collectors-Library/dp/1904919723/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?keywords=complete+sherlock+holmes+collection&qid=1577003185&sprefix=complete+sherlock+holmes&sr=8-3

I hope I could help!

There are a number of early comics from the 1910s through the 1930s that lampooned the characters.

But if you're looking for short stories, you might want to try Robert L. Fish's collection: <em>Schlock Homes: The Complete Bagel Street Saga</em>.

They are pricier and not at all portable, but the Annotated three-volume set is my favorite: https://www.amazon.com/New-Annotated-Sherlock-Holmes-Complete/dp/0393059162/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1509829992&amp;sr=1-2&amp;keywords=sherlock+holmes+annotated

and

https://www.amazon.com/New-Annotated-Sherlock-Holmes-Slipcased/dp/039305800X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1509829992&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=sherlock+holmes+annotated

Sorry you did not enjoy it. You can't get it for free. But you can buy it for $5 from Amazon. The link is here. IndianaPeach https://www.amazon.com/Hopeless-Stairway-Sherlock-Holmes-Fiction/dp/1546316841/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1494365028&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+hopeless+stairway

This one is my favorite. It has the illustrations and all 60 stories. It isn't new though if that is a big deal. The link is to Amazon (I don't know if that works for you) but you can get the ISBN number and do a search for some place near you.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1850070555/ref=olp_product_details?_encoding=UTF8&amp;me=0

I know I am late to the game, but besides Brett I also have always been struck by Simon Prebble's audio recording of the short stories. Very close to my mind's Holmes voice as well. (http://www.amazon.com/The-Adventures-of-Sherlock-Holmes/dp/B0034DGXGK/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1458684631&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=simon+prebble+sherlock+holmes)

I liked The Curious Adventures of Sherlock Holmes in Japan. It deals with some of the Sigurson time.

There's a series of books by Laurie R. King with an older Holmes, who is retired and raising bees, and then takes a young girl under his wing to train her as a detective. I've read the first three or four but I think there's at least a dozen of them.

Here's the first one: <em>The Beekeeper's Apprentice</em>.