Winter mornings and Sherlock Holmes

The cold winter mornings with snow outside mean one simple thing: one cannot go out. They mean sitting inside, eating, drinking and not doing much else. But two things make a good pastime during such cold dreary times: board games and books. While games of any kind require company, books do not. And I personally love to read detective stories during such time. Of all the works on crime fiction, the most interesting and befitting one seems to be the stories of Sherlock Holmes. There is something about the atmosphere in the stories that matches with that outside and one of the most interesting things seems to be curling up and devouring those words that describe the fantastic crimes, though easily solved by the great mind of the detective. I have read these stories innumerable times, yet don't feel exhausted at the thought of re-reading them, especially when it is all white and grey outside and the stories just reflect the same back.