Favorite Sherlock Holmes story

[Scar Akai]

I really liked "A Scandal in Bohemia"... especially the part when Holmes realises that Adler bested him. I loved the fact that every page has a great quote in it. :mrgreen:

You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.

Page 162

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

Page 163

To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They were admirable things for the observer — excellent for drawing the veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable memory.

[Ariadne Miyano]

I have read everything now so my personal favorites were..

The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Sign Of Four

The Adventure of Dancing Man

The Final Problem

The Daventure of the Veiled Lodger (For some reason I like Holmes' line: "Patient suffering is the most precious lesson this impatient world has.")

[aika]

The Hound of the Baskervilles

A Scandal in Bohemia

A study in scarlet.

[Silverbullet-kun]

A Scandal in Bohemia