Despite Cook’s rigor in minimizing scurvy amongst his crew, his sailors dropped like flies after catching Dysentery and Malaria in Batavia. It was a time without modern medicine when something easily prevented or treated today could be fatal.
Each story features Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson as they go about Victorian England solving crimes and mysteries, often in parallel with the incompetent Scotland Yard.
They are light, quick to read stories but for today’s audience, I think their main attraction comes from their historical insight into a society with much more obvious class barriers than that of ours today.