Uma coleção de histórias canônicas de Sherlock Holmes, de Doyle, contendo doze contos, originalmente publicados na The Strand Magazine, entre dezembro de 1892 e novembro de1893. Em Memórias de Sherlock Holmes, os contos percorrem desde o início da vida do genial detetive, as aventuras, as singularidades das situações vividas, os problemas e as angústias de Sherlock. Ao longo das narrativas, o autor mostra a construção do personagem, sua evolução e, por que não dizer, sua humanização.
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.