What strikes a modern reader of this collection of adventures of the great detective is how many remain unresolved. In The Five Orange Pips, the suspects disappear in a ship sinking. In The Adventure of the Copper Breeches, the resolution is tied up neatly, without much intervention from Holmes. Unlike modern detective tales that are strewn with corpses, most of these cases don't have a body, but instead verge into the merely interesting or slightly perplexing. Still, it's a good read, and has the classic line: "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
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