With so many different adaptations and book editions, the Sherlock Holmes' reading order can seem complex - here's the best order to read the books. Much of the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes is ...

Sherlock Holmes' brilliantly drawn arch-nemesis was based on a real-life criminal mastermind, reveals author GARETH RUBIN as ...

For his Sherlock Holmes stories, he developed a format in which the characters and general circumstances would remain the same, but each story would be standalone and able to be read in any order.