What's a good Sherlock Holmes story to read? I've never

>>8610515
dude just get the collected short stories and start reading them

>>8610553
"dude" i don't want to read everything he's ever written, just looking for a good one.

which is your favorite?

>>8610515
I don't see why you wouldn't just start at the beginning and read through all the stories

The novels too, there's really nothing horribly complicated there

Hound of Baskerville is obviously one of if not the most famous Sherlock story, I imagine you might as well go and read that if you are gonna randomly jump through them instead of reading them chronologically like a sane person.

>>8610831

" "dude" " theyre each less than 20 pages.

>>8610831
jeez dude don't be such a three second memory goldfish millennial

but if you really want to know it's the adventure of the dancing men

hound of the baskervilles is a novel. it's probably too long for you.

>>8610879
The hound of the baskervilles is not a particularly long or difficult novel, even if you've literally never read anything before

>>8610515
Conan Doyle wrote Sherlock novels as well as short stories. After a while, he became bored with Sherlock Holmes. There are suggestions that later novels were ghostwritten, even. So I would favour his earlier stories, with his first novel, A Study In Scarlet, being a good place to start. That is unless you are a Mormon, as the second half of it takes a very dim view of them.

Outside of Holmes he also wrote a number of horror and suspense stories which are worth looking at if you like that sort of thing. They are as good as any other horror writing I have read from this period. A number of them are collected in a Wordsworth volume.

>>8610890
even holmes could have detected the sarcasm in the comment in >>8610860 anon