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The Best of Sherlock Holmes |
1999 Poll Results
Ranking the Long Stories
|
Story |
Points |
Rating |
|
1. The Hound of the Baskervilles (179) |
880 |
100 |
|
2. The Sign of the Four (24) |
602 |
68 |
|
3. A Study in Scarlet (23) |
535 |
61 |
|
4. The Valley of Fear (17) |
413 |
47 |
The Top 12 Short Stories
|
Story |
Points |
Rating |
|
1. "The Speckled Band" (50) |
1,713 |
100 |
|
2. "The Red-Headed League" (40) |
1,668 |
97 |
|
3. "A Scandal in Bohemia" (37) |
1,468 |
86 |
|
4. "Silver Blaze" (23) |
1,332 |
78 |
|
5. "The Blue Carbuncle" (20) |
1,282 |
75 |
|
6. "The Musgrave Ritual" (14) |
1,013 |
59 |
|
7. "The Final Problem" (9) |
880 |
51 |
|
8. "The Empty House" (2) |
791 |
46 |
|
9. "The Dancing Men" (3) |
766 |
45 |
|
10. "The Six Napoleons" (4) |
715 |
42 |
|
11. "The Bruce-Partington Plans" (6) |
696 |
41 |
|
12. "The Man with the Twisted Lip" (4) |
463 |
27 |
Rating the Collected Tales
|
Volume (date) |
Rating |
Top 12 |
Rank |
|
Adventures (1892) |
100 |
5 |
1, 2, 3, 5, 12 |
|
Memoirs (1893) |
58 |
3 |
4, 6, 7 |
|
Return (1905) |
53 |
3 |
8, 9, 10 |
|
Last Bow (1917) |
39 |
1 |
11 |
|
Case-Book (1927) |
14 |
0 |
|
Reference:
Randall Stock, "Rating Sherlock Holmes" The Baker Street Journal, December 1999, pp. 5-11.
Notes
- A 12-point weighting model was used to determine the best stories.
- First-place votes are listed in parentheses after the title.
- "Ratings" for individual stories were computed by dividing each score by the maximum score for that category and multiplying by 100. This provides a simple value for comparing the relative positions of stories within a category.
- "Ratings" for the collected tales were based on the average score of all the stories in a volume and then indexed for a top rating of 100. Although "The Cardboard Box" is often included in His Last Bow, it was counted as part of the Memoirs because of its original publication date.
Vers. 1.4x Original work
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Randall Stock. All Rights Reserved.