If you liked Sherlock Holmes what book should you read next?

Answer 1

You should read "The Adventures of the Speckled band".........

This book is so so so good....................

You might try one of the following four titles with similar contents (the latter three have been out of print for some time):

The Apocrypha of Sherlock Holmes edited by Leslie S. Klinger

Sherlock Holmes: The Published Apocrypha edited by Jack Tracy

The Final Adventures of Sherlock Holmes edited by Peter Haining

The Uncollected Sherlock Holmes edited by Richard Lancelyn Green

These books feature several items written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and some others, including two very short breakfast table snippets titled 'The Field Bazaar' and 'How Watson Learned the Trick,' which would fit in front of any of Watson's stories as well as two short stories with an unnamed arm-chair detective with erroneous conclusions that were published between 'The Final Problem' and 'The Hound of the Baskervilles.'

There are several hundred items written by other authors over the past hundred years or so that would qualify as 'fanfiction,' and there are literally several thousand items of speculative banter about topics such as Watson's middle name and marriages, Holmes' college, the chronology of the original stories. etc. These latter items have come to be known as the Sherlockian game.

There are also several other fine detective stories by other authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ellery Queen, etc.