I started out sad to be reading the last Sherlock Holmes book I will ever read for the first time. My emotions got more complicated because this one is a little odd in places... There are still some really good stories in here, but others are weird (narrated by Holmes instead of Watson, for instance), or blatantly racist, so all in all, I'm maybe just as glad he didn't keep writing more stories if this is the direction he was going with them. 

Still worth re-reading (or, at least, most of the stories in the book are worth re-reading), but doesn't quite rank as a favorite like the rest of the Sherlock Holmes short story collections.