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|title=The Return of Sherlock Holmes

|sort=Return of Sherlock Holmes, The

|publisher=BBC Books

|date=November 2013

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|summary=Not naturally the first place to turn to for starting to read Holmes books, but with this quality it could be thought of as the best.

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I'm still not sure which is cheekier of the BBC – either riffing on the Conan Doyle originals for their own modern takes on Sherlock Holmes, or producing new editions of the original stories and novels with their young stars on the front, purely to tie a few sales down of what is now out of copyright. Certainly I think the latter is the greater crime, given the results on screen, for the number of young people picking up these classics for the first time on the basis of the TV and finding something quite against the grain of what they've ever read outside of school must be quite large. Still, anything to forcefeed classics to a new audience…