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![]() ![]() There is more graphic violence, and there are one or two disturbing scenes, such as an attempted suicide. ![]() Whereas most of The Adventures are concerned with theft or the threat of scandal, The Memoirs are more often murderous, and have fewer happy endings. Overall, there is different flavour to this collection, and it is darker. ![]() For the time, I think it is actually quite progressive, and I’m all for viewing things in context, but it simply does not make for a comfortable read. If we go digging for the veins of racism that run through many a classic text we can certainly find worse, but in the contemporary world it is difficult not to pause over this story’s insensitive handling of the topic. ‘The Naval Treaty’ was especially good, and I also liked ‘Silver Blaze’, but I found ‘The Resident Patient’ dull, and ‘The Yellow Face’ is a moral tangle for modern audiences. I had expected this text to be similar to The Adventures, and I wasn’t wrong, but this collection is more of a mixed bag. I must confess to a pinch of disappointment, because whilst I did enjoy The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, I think it the weaker of the two. After finishing The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, I progressed immediately to this second collection of Holmes and Watson’s exploits. ![]()
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