The movies are faithful insofar as they contain characters with the names of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson.
I've read (and re-read) and enjoyed the Memoirs and the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Have you read 'A Study in Scarlet', the first story?
I've been moving house and packing up books, in the course of which I accidentally read 'Kidnapped', 'Treasure Island' and 'The Black Arrow' in a collection of Robert Louis Stevenson stories.
"Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French." - P.G. Wodehouse, The Luck of the Bodkins[This message has been edited by Pitt (edited 05-23-2015 @ 10:02 AM).]