I've been putting off reading them since I started the Victorian!Derren thing, since I have a terrible habit of unconsciously absorbing whatever I read and that turning up in my writing. I didn't want to start getting plot bunnies for another Victorian AU while I'm still working on that one. But I don't think I'm going to be done with that for a while yet and I really want to read the Sherlock Holmes stories so I think I'll just have to risk it.