Review: A scandal in Bohemia

This is the first short story in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle . This is one of my favourites because it's such an amusing and entertaining adventure, and also this is the only story in which Sherlock Holmes gets beaten...by a woman.
These are the opening lines of the story:
“To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex.”

I love how the plot starts with the arrival of the King of Bohemia in the most mysterious manner to 221B Baker Street to assign a relatively simple task to Sherlock Holmes. And during this task, how Holmes is beaten and tricked by "the woman" several times.

This is about the scandalous picture of Irene and the King of Bohemia that Holmes is assigned to look for and return it to the king. I highly recommend this story to anyone who loves mystery and Sherlock Holmes.

The ending lines:

“And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were beaten by a woman’s wit. He used to make merry over the cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her photograph, it is always under the honourable title of "the woman".”