The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories - Part I discussion

I was amazed at the quality of the materials included in this book. Generally, I rate stories as 1=trash, don't bother; 2=poor, a waste of time; 3=good, worth reading; 4=very good, a pleasure to read; and, finally, 5=outstanding, worth an award.

For this book, I found four items that I rated as 5s. That is amazing as I have only EVER found two items I rated as "5" before and one won a Hugo (Niel Gaiman's "Study in Emerald" and Dorothy Sayers' "The case of the Missing Kitten").

The remaining 20 items were split, ten and ten, between "good" and "very good." This is absolutely unprecedented for an anthology of Sherlockian fiction and I have read, literally, HUNDREDS of such anthologies. My collection includes more than 8,000 items of Sherlockian fiction.