Sherlock Holmes: The Collection + A Biography of the Author

by Arthur Conan Doyle

This book contains several HTML tables of contents.
The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.

Here you will find the Sherlock Holmes novels and stories in the chronological order of their original publication:

- A Study in Scarlet
- The Sign of Four
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
- The Hound of the Baskervilles
- The Return of Sherlock Holmes
- The Valley of Fear
- His Last Blow
- The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes

Genres: Classics, Mystery, Fiction

985 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 27, 2017

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

[Neil · Rating 5 out of 5]

Pure Genius

Over the years I've seen quite a few of the adaptations of Sherlock Holmes in film and on TV, from the classical Sir Basil Rathbone films and the ITV series starring Jeremy Brett to the more modern BBC series with Benedict Cumberbatch and the American series Elemental starring Lucy Liu as a female Watson, but until now I have never read any of the source material.
I purchased this book a couple of years ago but have only recently gotten around to reading it, but it was well worth the wait.
Apart from the style of language used being a little archaic, the stories have all been entertaining and engrossing. While being very familiar with the characters of Holmes and Watson it has still been interesting to see how they develop from story to story and determining which adaptation is the most faithful, which without a doubt is the ITV Jeremy Brett version.
While some of the stories are quite short, they are all fascinating to read and I have thoroughly enjoyed every page of this book.

[carl sand · Rating 5 out of 5]

Riveting

Anyone one who is a fan of mysteries and / or Sherlock Holmes will enjoy this collection. It has entertained me for several weeks!