My Friend the Murderer and Other Mysteries and Adventures

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Unauthorized U.S. collection of Doyle's earliest short stories, plus a couple of later ones.

Genres: Mystery

Library Binding

First published December 31, 1971

About the author

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a Scottish writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones in the field of crime fiction.

Doyle was a prolific writer. In addition to the Holmes stories, his works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger, and humorous stories about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels. One of Doyle's early short stories, "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" (1884), helped to popularise the mystery of the brigantine Mary Celeste, found drifting at sea with no crew member aboard.

Reviews

[Jeff Hobbs]

Read so far:

My friend the murderer --2
The gully of Bluemansdyke --3
The parson of Jackman's Gulch --
*The silver hatchet --
The man from Archangel --
That little square box --
A night among the nihilists --
Bones, the April fool of Harvey's Sluice --
*Selecting a ghost: the ghosts of Goresthorpe Grange --
The mystery of Sasassa Valley --3
The American's tale --2
Our Derby sweepstakes --
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The end of Devil Hawker --3