Arthur Conan Doyle was born in 1859, and was very well-read and well educated, but I doubt that he could ever had imagined that his books featuring Sherlock Holmes & Dr Watson would still be popular over 100 years after they first appeared.There's been a raft of modern takes on Sherlock Holmes stories over the past few years - from Hollywood blockbusters, to a BBC tv series, to a graphic novel featuring the Muppets, to a new Sherlock Holmes mystery by Anthony Horowitz, and even a "life lessons" book!
I'm a fan of short stories, and one of my most enjoyable reads so far this year has been A study in Sherlock : stories inspired by the Holmes canon edited by Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger. With some of big-name authors (Neil Gaiman, Laura Lippman and Lee Child) as well as some first-time authors, offering up quirky tales, this was a great collection of short tales to delve into.
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