Sherlock Holmes Books In Order

A Study in Scarlet

The first adventure in Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes series, this ingenious novella of 1887 introduces the reader to the brilliant detective and his faithful companion, Doctor Watson. Holmes’ deductive genius, modeled on Doyle’s medical school mentor Dr. Joseph Bell, remains to this day the standard against which all Great Detectives are judged. /Content /EditorialReview EditorialReview Source Amazon. com Review /Source Content Arthur Conan Doyle’s Study in Scarlet is the first published story involving the legendary Sherlock Holmes, arguably the world’s best known detective, and the first narrative by Holmes’s Boswell, the unassuming Dr. Watson, a military surgeon lately returned from the Afghan War. Watson needs a flat mate and a diversion. Holmes needs a foil. And thus a great literary collaboration begins.

Watson and Holmes move to a now famous address, 221B Baker Street, where Watson is introduced to Holmes’s eccentricities as well as his uncanny ability to deduce information about his fellow beings. Somewhat shaken by Holmes’s egotism, Watson is nonetheless dazzled by his seemingly magical ability to provide detailed information about a man glimpsed once under the streetlamp across the road.

Then murder. Facing a deserted house, a twisted corpse with no wounds, a mysterious phrase drawn in blood on the wall, and the buffoons of Scotland Yard Lestrade and Gregson Holmes measures, observes, picks up a pinch of this and a pinch of that, and generally baffles his faithful Watson. Later, Holmes explains: ‘In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backward…
. There are few people who, if you told them a result, would be able to evolve from their own inner consciousness what the steps were which led up to that result.’ Holmes is in that elite group.

Conan Doyle quickly learned that it was Holmes’s deductions that were of most interest to his readers. The lengthy flashback, while a convention of popular fiction, simply distracted from readers’ real focus. It is when Holmes and Watson gather before the coal fire and Holmes sums up the deductions that led him to the successful apprehension of the criminal that we are most captivated. Subsequent Holmes stories The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes rightly plunge the twosome directly into the middle of a baffling crime, piling mystery upon mystery until Holmes’s denouement once more leaves the dazzled Watson murmuring, ‘You are wonderful, Holmes!’ Generations of readers agree. Barbara Schlieper

The Sign of Four

Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www. 1stWorldLibrary. ORG Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantel piece and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle, and rolled back his left shirt cuff. For some little time his eyes rested thought fully upon the sinewy forearm and wrist all dotted and scarred with innumerable puncture marks. Finally he thrust the sharp point home, pressed down the tiny piston, and sank back into the velvet lined arm chair with a long sigh of satisfaction. Three times a day for many months I had witnessed this performance, but custom had not reconciled my mind to it. On the contrary, from day to day I had become more irritable at the sight, and my conscience swelled nightly within me at the thought that I had lacked the courage to protest. Again and again I had registered a vow that I should deliver my soul upon the subject, but there was that in the cool, nonchalant air of my companion which made him the last man with whom one would care to take anything approaching to a liberty. His great powers, his masterly manner, and the experience which I had had of his many extraordinary qualities, all made me diffident and backward in crossing him.

The Hound of the Baskervilles

‘The Hound of the Baskervilles is a crime novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, originally serialized in the Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902 and mainly set on Dartmoor in Devon in England’s West Country. At the time of researching the novel, Conan Doyle was a General Practitioner in Plymouth, and thus was able to explore the moor and accurately capture its mood and feel. Conan Doyle’s former school, Stonyhurst College is thought to have provided the inspiration for the description of Baskerville Hall. In the novel, the detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson are called to investigate a curse which is alleged to hang over the house of the Baskervilles.’ Quote from wikipedia. org

About the Author

‘Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL 22 May 1859 7 July 1930 was a British author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays and romances, poetry, and non fiction.’ Quote from wikipedia. org

Table of Contents

Publisher’s Preface; Mr. Sherlock Holmes; The Curse Of The Baskervilles; The Problem; Sir Henry Baskerville; Three Broken Threads; Baskerville Hall; The Stapletons Of Merripit House; First Report Of Dr. Watson; The Light Upon The Moor; Extract From The Diary Of Dr. Watson; The Man On The Tor; Death On The Moor; Fixing The Nets; The Hound of the Baskervilles; A Retrospection

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion and Mythology. http://www. forgottenbooks. org

The Valley of Fear

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL 1859 1930 was a Scottish author. He is most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays and romances, poetry, and non fiction. His first significant work was A Study in Scarlet, which appeared in Beeton’s Christmas Annual for 1887 and featured the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes, who was partially modelled after his former university professor, Joseph Bell. Other works include The Firm of Girdlestone 1890, The Captain of the Polestar 1890, The Doings of Raffles Haw 1892, Beyond the City 1892, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 1892, The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard 1896, The Great Boer War 1900, The Green Flag 1900, The Hound of the Baskervilles 1902, and The Lost World 1912.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London based ‘consulting detective’, Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess and is renowned for his skilful use of astute observation, deductive reasoning and forensic skills to solve difficult cases. Conan Doyle wrote four novels and fifty six short stories that feature Holmes. The first story, A Study in Scarlet, appeared in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887 and Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine in 1890, respectively. The character grew tremendously in popularity with the beginning of the first series of short stories in The Strand Magazine in 1891; further series of short stories and two serialised novels appeared until 1927. The stories cover a period from around 1875 up to 1907, with a final case in 1914. All but four stories are narrated by Holmes’ friend and biographer, Dr. John H. Watson, two are narrated by Holmes himself and two others are written in the third person. In two stories ‘The Musgrave Ritual’ and ‘The Adventure of the Gloria Scott’, Holmes tells Watson the main story from his memories, whereas Watson becomes the narrator of the frame story. Conan Doyle said that the character of Holmes was inspired by Dr. Joseph Bell, for whom Doyle had worked as a clerk at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Like Holmes, Bell was noted for drawing large conclusions from the smallest observations. wikipedia

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

‘I am afraid, Watson, that I shall have to go,’ said Holmes, as we sat down together to our breakfast one morning. ‘Go! Where to?’ ‘To Dartmoor; to King’s Pyland.’ I was not surprised. Indeed, my only wonder was that he had not already been mixed upon this extraordinary case, which was the one topic of conversation through the length and breadth of England. For a whole day my companion had rambled about the room with his chin upon his chest and his brows knitted, charging and recharging his pipe with the strongest black tobacco, and absolutely deaf to any of my questions or remarks. Fresh editions of every paper had been sent up by our news agent, only to be glanced over and tossed down into a corner. Yet, silent as he was, I knew perfectly well what it was over which he was brooding. There was but one problem before the public which could challenge his powers of analysis, and that was the singular disappearance of the favorite for the Wessex Cup, and the tragic murder of its trainer. When, therefore, he suddenly announced his intention of setting out for the scene of the drama it was only what I had both expected and hoped for. This volumes includes ‘Silver Blaze,’ ‘The Yellow Face,’ ‘The Stock Broker’s Clerk,’ ‘The ‘Gloria Scott’,’ ‘The Musgrave Ritual,’ ‘The Reigate Puzzle,’ ‘The Crooked Man,’ ‘The Resident Patient,’ ‘The Greek Interpreter,’ ‘The Naval Treaty,’ and ‘The Final Problem.’

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www. 1stWorldLibrary. ORG IT was in the spring of the year 1894 that all London was interested, and the fashionable world dismayed, by the murder of the Honourable Ronald Adair under most unusual and inexplicable circumstances. The public has already learned those particulars of the crime which came out in the police investigation; but a good deal was suppressed upon that occasion, since the case for the prosecution was so overwhelmingly strong that it was not necessary to bring forward all the facts. Only now, at the end of nearly ten years, am I allowed to supply those missing links which make up the whole of that remarkable chain. The crime was of interest in itself, but that interest was as nothing to me compared to the inconceivable sequel, which afforded me the greatest shock and surprise of any event in my adventurous life. Even now, after this long interval, I find myself thrilling as I think of it, and feeling once more that sudden flood of joy, amazement, and incredulity which utterly submerged my mind. Let me say to that public which has shown some interest in those glimpses which I have occasionally given them of the thoughts and actions of a very remarkable man that they are not to blame me if I have not shared my knowledge with them, for I should have considered it my first duty to have done so had I not been barred by a positive prohibition from his own lips, which was only withdrawn upon the third of last month.

His Last Bow

Gathering together in one volume the later exploits of the saga of Sherlock Holmes, the world’s first consulting detective, His Last Bow includes tales published individually between 1908 and 1917, plus one early story, 1892’s ‘The Adventure of the Cardboard Box,’ previously considered too ‘scandalous’ for American audiences, with its themes of adultery. Here, Holmes must contend with mysterious bearded men, stolen secret submarine plans, a missing lady aristocrat, and his own near fatal illness in stories including: . ‘The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge’ . ‘The Adventure of the Cardboard Box’ . ‘The Adventure of the Red Circle’ . ‘The Adventure of the Bruce Partington Plans’ . ‘The Adventure of the Dying Detective’ . ‘The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax’ . ‘The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot’ . ‘His Last Bow‘ Scottish surgeon and political activist SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 1859 1930 turned his passions into stories and novels, producing fiction and nonfiction works sometimes controversial The Great Boer War, 1900, sometimes fanciful The Coming of the Fairies, 1922, and sometimes legendary The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1892.

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

‘Mr Sherlock Holmes, the well known private detective, was the victim of a murderous assault this morning which has left him in a precarious position’. Dr Watson stops dead in his tracks when he reads of the attempt on his friend’s life. The forces of nature turn against man, love breeds hatred and cowardice, mothers appear to attack their own children, and Sherlock Holmes, the one man who can redress the balance, seemingly lies at death’s door…
When an assassination attempt is made on the great detective’s life it seems that no one can escape the death and dread which blights Britain…