Sherlock Holmes

The final collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, and the last published work of the very distinguished doctor, short-story writer, novelist, poet, historian, dramatist and essayist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, introduced by a fascinating farewell overview of his Sherlock Holmes works by the author, including his wistful comment “Had Holmes never existed I could not have done more, though he may perhaps have stood a little in the way of the recognition of my more serious literary work.”. An e-book (…)

Intended, as the title indicates, to be the final collection in the series of Sherlock Holmes stories, this quite wonderful book finishes most appropriately by two of the best ones ever: the “The Adventure of the Dying Detective” and “His Last Bow: the War Service of Sherlock Holmes”, the only Sherlock story published during World War I.
Bravo and thank you, Sir Arthur! We have included in an annex a few of the many memorable citations from this Sherlock Holmes/Arthur Conan Doyle (…)

At the very beginning of this dramatic final Sherlock Holmes novel the renowned detective receives a coded message from a secret contact in the underworld – the underworld of Sherlock’s arch-enemy Professor Moriarty – warning of imminent danger to a prominent citizen, and just when Sherlock had succeeded in decoding the message a Scotland Yard Inspector calls on him to announce that the citizen in question had just been murdered.
That leads Sherlock, Doctor Watson and Inspector MacDonald (…)

A collection of 13 Sherlock stories published by Arthur Conan Doyle between September 1903 and December 1904.
Beginning most effectively at the start of The Adventure of the Empty House with Sherlock’s own account of how he had managed to escape death at the hands of the infamous Professor Moriarty – an event that had provoked enormous disappointment in the reading public and a widespread demand for Sherlock’s return – and concluding with one of his most memorable accounts of all, The (…)

Very simply: the most famous – and no doubt the greatest – novel in the history of crime fiction, a dramatic murder mystery in the eerie, desolate and dangerous Dartmoor Downs in Devon where Sherlock Holmes and his faithful companion and formidable narrator Doctor Watson investigate at great risks to themselves the menace of a mysterious wild beast that threatens to put an end to one of the most ancient dynasties of the region [1].
(59,000 words)
An e-book is available for downloading (…)

The second collection of Sherlock stories published by Arthur Conan Doyle in book form, including two of the most memorable of them all: The Greek Interpreter, introducing Sherlock’s elder brother Mycroft who has an even greater gift of precise reasoning and deduction than his own, although he’s too phlegmatic to ever go out and do the field investigations necessary to obtain proof for a law court the way Sherlock does, being a member of the extraordinarily antisocial Diogenes club whose (…)

The first book of Sherlock Holmes stories, regrouping stories that had previously been published by Arthur Conan Doyle in diverse British and American newspapers and magazines.
A splendid set of 12 excellent tales recounted by Sherlock’s faithful friend Dr. Watson with brio and colour, always concentrating on the superb reasoning and deductive skills of the first and most famous scientific detective in literary history, the one and only Sherlock Holmes. An e-book is available for (…)

At the beginning of this second Sherlock Holmes novel [1] the eponymous detective is resorting to opium to allay his boredom when a young woman arrives to ask him – and Doctor Watson – to accompany her to a rendezvous that promises to reveal the mysterious fate of her father ten years previously. Off they go to begin to unravel, thanks to the quite extraordinary reasoning powers of the by-now-everyone’s-favorite detective, not only the fate of the poor lady’s husband but also of the fabulous (…)

The very first Sherlock Holmes story and the author’s first novel [1], where Sherlock and Doctor Watson meet for the first time in “London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained”, get along famously from the start after Holmes asks Doctor Watson “What have you to confess now? It’s just as well for two fellows to know the worst of one another before they begin to live together.”, move into shared lodgings in the thereafter-famous (…)