SynopsisFrom " A Scandal in Bohemia, " in which Sherlock Holmes is famously outwitted by a woman, the captivating Irene Adler, to " The Five Orange Pips, " in which the master detective is pitted against the Ku Klux Klan, to " The Final Problem, " in which Holmes and his archenemy, Professor Moriarty, face each other in a showdown at the Reichenbach Falls, the stories that appear in "The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" bear witness to the flowering of author Arthur Conan Doyle's genius. " The plain fact, " the celebrated mystery writer Vincent Starrett asserted, " is that Sherlock Holmes is still a more commanding figure in the world than most of the warriors and statesmen in whose present existence we are invited to believe."