Scholastic - Sherlock Sign of Three

This is supposed to be a school book. So you can imagine my horror at seeing this:

Now any fool knows there are sixty stories in the Sherlock Holmes canon; fifty-six short stories and four long stories.

But I thought I would be generous and consider the apocrypha by Conan Doyle as well. These include two very short parody type stories; "The Field Bazaar" and "How Watson Learned the Trick", two apparent references to Sherlock Holmes in other Conan Doyle short stories; "The Man with the Watches" and "The Lost Special" and three plays; "The Speckled Band", "The Crown Diamond" and the now lost original script which was reworked by William Gillette into the highly successful play "Sherlock Holmes".

There are objections that we could level at admitting most of these to our count. The plays "The Speckled Band" and "The Crown Diamond" are not really separate stories, but play versions of stories from the canon ("The Speckled Band" and "The Mazarin Stone", respectively). The stories  "The Man with the Watches" and "The Lost Special" do not directly name Sherlock Holmes, and I am inclined to believe that they, in fact, represent Dr Watson's attempts to continue Holmes' work after his supposed death at the Reichenbach Falls.

Nevertheless, even the most generous count only gives us sixty-seven Sherlock Holmes stories by Conan Doyle. So this school text book is, in fact, a load of old dog dirts. No wonder today's youth are all stabbing babies to steal their hoodies to sell for whizzies and skags, if this is what they teach them at school.

Scholastic should be ashamed of themselves.