Sherlock Holmes

I'm reading my way through the Sherlock Holmes canon - I just finished "The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk" - and I'm finding Doyle's writing style and choices very interesting.

He's made the choice to use one person as narrator - mostly Watson, occasionally Holmes - and to have that person only write down what they witness. This lack of omniscient narrator, combined with Doyle's interest in revealing Holmes' thought processes, leads to a truly astounding amount of exposition.  Doyle's writing style is  remarkably modern - in the sense of short declarative sentences and word choice, and lively enough to almost render the tell-not-showness invisible, or at least acceptable to modern eyes.

I'm enjoying his descriptive passages - he has quite the eye for landscape - and his characters.  He manages to give enough defining characteristics to make them interesting and individual to the mystery.