The third of the four full length Sherlock novels and perhaps the most famous with the most adaptations. The writing style has really developed by this stage, less concentrating on introducing Sherlock and more plot and case solving.
It contains a famliar ruse of Sherlock using Watson as a decoy so that he can do his own detective work on the moors - that would have been the twist in the plot in its day but the countless adaptations of this story mean it is telegraphed a bit too quickly.
Still a good story, and a difficult case for Sherlock to solve.
It is interesting to note that this novel represents almost a ten year gap between the Sign of Four. It was written and serialised in 1901.
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