The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes is the final set of twelve (out of a total of fifty-six) Sherlock Holmes short stories by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle first published in the Strand Magazine between October 1921 and April 1927.
Contents
1. The Adventure of the Illustrious Client
2. The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier
3. The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone
4. The Adventure of the Three Gables
5. The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire
6. The Adventure of the Three Garridebs
7. The Problem of Thor Bridge
8. The Adventure of the Creeping Man
9. The Adventure of the Lion's Mane
10. The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger
11. The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place
12. The Adventure of the Retired Colourman
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Long before crime fiction became a genre, there was Sherlock Holmes—and behind him, the mind of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: physician, spiritualist, and literary architect of deduction itself. He didn’t just create a detective; he carved out an entire way of thinking, a cold, rational clarity that sliced through Victorian fog like a magnifying glass catching the morning sun.
Born in 1859 in Edinburgh, Doyle was a man of science before he was a man of letters. Trained as a doctor, he brought a clinical precision to his writing that made Holmes’s logic feel almost forensic in an age when forensic science was still in its infancy. The A Study in Scarlet debut in 1887 wasn’t just the birth of a character—it was the birth of modern detective fiction. And yet, Doyle always saw Holmes as a side project. It was his historical novels, like The White Company, that he considered his serious work.
Sherlock Holmes - The Original Stories
The original Sherlock Holmes written by [author_link_2464], all of which were serialised in popular magazines of the time prior to being published in book form.
Sherlock Holmes - The Original Stories consists of nine books — considered a complete series. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
