This devotional collection should have been right up my alley as a mystery fan, but it failed to meet my expectations. Most of the devotions were weak in application, which is really the whole point of a devotional. Each selection is headed by a short quotation from one of the Holmes stories or novels. It seemed reasonable to expect that the story quoted from would be related to that meditation, so I made an effort to read the Holmes story before reading its connected meditation. I soon discovered that some of the devotions are connected to a different story than the one from which the quotation is drawn. Some of the beginning quotations are drawn from previously used stories, so at this point I’ve only read about half of the Holmes canon. (Actually, I listened to LibriVox recordings for most of them.) I’m enjoying it so much that I’m going to finish the rest of the stories. ( )