Mount TBR #2

I read this book for Mount TBR Reading Challenge 2019.

Tales for a Winter’s Night – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

This is a collection of eight short stories first published in the Strand Magazine in 1898-99. None of them feature the world’s most famous consulting detective, though one features a character using the logical methods and cool tone of Sherlock Holmes. Another story features the voice if not character of the delightful if clueless Brigadier Gerard. Conan Doyle was more craftsman than artist so the standard specs of the stories become obvious if the reader reads the stories close together instead over a couple months. There are surprises galore with evil twins, greedy relatives, and regular-guy narrators suddenly out of their depth. I liked the stories for their lightness and escapism but then I like non-Holmes Conan Doyle. See The Lost World, The Mystery of Cloomber, The Poison Belt, The Tragedy of the Korosko, and The Exploits of Brigadier of Gerard.