*Crime, Spies & Sleaze: Like Superman and Tarzan, Sherlock Holmes is a household name, one of the literary iconic characters. Though not the first example of a literary ‘consulting detective’, Holmes is undoubtedly the most famous. These days we know him from countless film, TV and radio versions, and it is perhaps strange to realise that there were just four novels and fifty-six short stories penned by his creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, over a hundred years ago. New in we have two paperback story collections (The Case-Book Of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes) and The Uncollected Sherlock Holmes: short plays, jottings, ‘sensational stratagems’, parodies and self-parodies gathered in one volume as the perfect companion to the stories. If you’ve never read these ask yourself ‘should you?’ The answer is, of course, rather elementary… 
PICTURED: ALL BY ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
THE CASE-BOOK OF SHERLOCK HOLMES Penguin 1960 6th UK PB VG £5
THE MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES Penguin 1957 5th UK PB GD £4
THE UNCOLLECTED SHERLOCK HOLMES Penguin 1983 1st UK PB VG £4