>>191Do you mean the Sherlock Holmes novels (whose author was Arthur Conan Doyle), or another series of books authored by someone called Holmes?
Regardless, the Sherlock Holmes stories are still very good reads!
I'm fond of "The Thirty-Nine Steps" (published 1915), although it's really the proto-thriller novel it draws a lot from mystery writing. "The Riddle of the Sands" (1903) is great too, although it's an early spy novel it's like a mystery novel set on a tiny yacht.