Casebook of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle, Don Irwin (illustrator)

A Study in Scarlet
The Adventure of the Speckled Band
A Scandal in Bohemia
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
The Hound of the Baskervilles

281 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1968

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

[Micah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mostly similar to His Last Bow, with a couple of stories I found disappointingly vague and less thorough, both in Holmes detecting and Conan-Doyle's developing.

[Jordan Simmonds · Rating 5 out of 5]

I absolutely loved this book. I love the way that Conan wrote it in faced paced way I was always on the edge of my seat.