The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

A[rthur] Conan Doyle

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

London:

George Newnes

1892

In the first binding state, this is the first collection of Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories and would be followed two years later by his The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. It is difficult to overstate how important the character of Sherlock Holmes is to the development of detective fiction. It is said that many people believe in the actual existence of two fictional characters: Robinson Crusoe and Sherlock Holmes. This volume contains some of the best-known Holmes stories, including “A Scandal in Bohemia,” “The Red-Headed League,” “The Blue Carbuncle,” and “The Copper Beeches.” Conan Doyle began the Golden Age of the Short Story, which ended with the outbreak of World War I. Queen’s Quorum no. 16 and a Haycraft-Queen selection.

From the Collection of Jeffrey Johnson