My personal interest  in Holmes
         I showed such interest in the Sherlock Holmes stories that by Christmas 1964 my parents bought me The Complete Sherlock Holmes, what we in "the game" call The Canon. I  later found and enjoyed what  I call the deuterocanonical stories in Arthur Conan Doyle's son's book,  the Exploits of Sherlock Holmes.
 My favorite non-canonical story would have to be "The Greatest Detective of All Time"  by  Ralph Roberts in which he time travels.