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From “A Scandal in Bohemia,” in which Sherlock Holmes is notoriously outwitted with a lady, the fascinating Irene Adler, to “The Five Orange Pips,” in which the master investigator is pitted contrary to the Ku Klux Klan, to “The Ultimate Issue,” in which Holmes and his arch-enemy, Professor Moriarty, encounter one another in a series in the Reichenbach Falls, the reports that come in The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes bear witness to the flowering of writer Arthur Conan Doyle’s guru. “The basic reality,” the famous mystery author Vincent Starrett declared, “is that Sherlock Holmes continues to be a far more powerful figure on the planet than all of the statesmen and players in whose current lifestyle we're asked to believe.”