It was a fairly good read. It did seem a little disjointed, like a bunch of different stories put together in one book. That may be my thought simply because Doyle wrote the Sherlock Holmes series, which are a bunch of short stories. It was hard to stay interested unless I read long chunks at a time, because of the writing style and Ye Olde English, but the stories in and of themselves were interesting and I did chuckle a few times with the humor.