Sherlock's Best Sermon: What Our Editors Are Reading

A statue of Sherlock Holmes in London on Oct. 18, 2012. Photo: sergomezlo / Shutterstock.com

One of the best things I ever found at Goodwill was a complete set of all Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories — a major coup for middle-school, mystery-loving me. Unfortunately, the books smelled as if they had spent a few decades in the smoke-infused den of Holmes’ Baker Street lodgings. I sandwiched dryer sheets between the pages and read them all cover-to-cover.

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