If you're a Shelock Holmes fan or if you just enjoy turn of the century humor, John Kendrick Bangs is the author for you and this is an easy way to evaluate his work. The stories relate to the main character who is the son of the detective Sherlock Holmes and the grandsson of the famous jewelry thief and safecracker Raffles. The two bloodlines sometimes conflict and sometime work together to produce imagiative, fanciful, and light short mysteries. An easy and enjoyable read.