Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), well-known Scottish author and physician.

Doyle wrote 4 novels and 5 collections of short stories about Sherlock Holmes, one of the first, and certainly the most famous, of fictional detectives. Holmes is a consulting detective, living in London, constantly solving crimes that baffle the police. He combines brilliant deductive reasoning with a cold, arrogant detachment toward his cases and clients that frequently amazes his sidekick and biographer, Dr. John Watson.

Doyle was a prolific author, and there are many short stories and novels not about Holmes. A few of these have mystery elements; many are thrillers or historical fiction. You can read a brief biography of Conan Doyle.

Sherlock Holmes novels:

• The Hound of the Baskervilles: 1902
• The Sign of the Four: 1890
• A Study in Scarlet: 1887
• The Valley of Fear: 1915

Sherlock Holmes short story collections:

• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: 1892
• The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes: 1927
• His Last Bow: 1917
• The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes: 1894
• The Return of Sherlock Holmes: 1905

Other mystery novels by Doyle:

• The Doings of Raffles Haw: 1892
• The Mystery of Cloomber: 1889
• The Surgeon of Gaster Fell: 1885

Other short story collections:

Note: Most of these contain a mixture of mysteries and non-mysteries.

• The Black Doctor and Other Tales: 1925
• The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales: 1890
• Danger! and Other Stories: 1918
• The Green Flag and Other Stories: 1900
• My Friend the Murderer and Other Mysteries: 1893
• Mysteries and Adventures: 1889
• Round the Fire Stories 1908
• Round the Red Lamp: 1894
• Tales of Terror and Mystery: 1922
• Uncollected Stories: 1982

Also note:

• The Uncollected Sherlock Holmes (compiled by Roger Lancelyn Green; Penguin Books, 1983), contains all of Conan Doyle's uncollected writings about Sherlock Holmes which are not Holmes stories--parodies, plays, prefaces, reminiscences, and so on. There is also a long introduction about Doyle and Holmes, and a number of interviews and articles.

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