The Canon of Sherlock Holmes

By Arthur Conan Doyle ⊕ Search within the text of the stories:

The 56 short stories and four novels written about Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Formatted for your reading pleasure by Arthur and Francis Bond.

• A Study in Scarlet
• The Sign of Four
• Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
  • A Scandal in Bohemia
  • The Red-headed League
  • A Case of Identity
  • The Boscombe Valley Mystery
  • The Five Orange Pips
  • The Man with the Twisted Lip
  • The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
  • The Adventure of the Speckled Band
  • The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb
  • The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor
  • The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet
  • The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
• Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
  • The Adventure of Silver Blaze
  • The Adventure of the Cardboard Box (UK)
  • The Adventure of the Yellow Face
  • The Adventure of the Stock-broker’s Clerk
  • The Adventure of the “Gloria Scott”
  • The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual
  • The Adventure of the Reigate Puzzle
  • The Adventure of the Crooked Man
  • The Adventure of the Resident Patient
  • The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter
  • The Adventure of the Naval Treaty
  • The Adventure of the Final Problem
• The Return of Sherlock Holmes
  • The Adventure of the Empty House
  • The Adventure of the Norwood Builder
  • The Adventure of the Dancing Men
  • The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist
  • The Adventure of the Priory School
  • The Adventure of Black Peter
  • The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton
  • The Adventure of the Six Napoleons
  • The Adventure of the Three Students
  • The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez
  • The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter
  • The Adventure of the Abbey Grange
  • The Adventure of the Second Stain
• The Hound of the Baskervilles
• The Valley of Fear
• His Last Bow
  • The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge
  • The Adventure of the Cardboard Box (US)
  • The Adventure of the Red Circle
  • The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans
  • The Adventure of the Dying Detective
  • The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax
  • The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot
  • His Last Bow
• The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
  • The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone
  • The Problem of Thor Bridge
  • The Adventure of the Creeping Man
  • The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire
  • The Adventure of the Three Garridebs
  • The Adventure of the Illustrious Client
  • The Adventure of the Three Gables
  • The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier
  • The Adventure of the Lion’s Mane
  • The Adventure of the Retired Colourman
  • The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger
  • The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place

All stories are in the public domain in most countries (some of the stories in The Casebook are still under copyright in the U.S.).

This page is formatted using the open source Tufte CSS inspired by the works of Edward Tufte. Illustrations are taken from the Victorian Web. Thanks to Alexis Barquin of the The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia for letting me use his sentence-segmented text. Links to locations were made with reference to the Sherlock Holmes Atlas.

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Some Other Notable Editions

• The Complete Sherlock Holmes: Nicely formatted, html, pdf, epub and mobi and ascii; no illustrations.
• The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia: Stories, summaries, illustrations, chronologies, radiographies, filmographies and more.
• Camden House — The Complete Sherlock Holmes: Nicely formatted html with many illustrations.
• Strand Magazine: Scan of the magazine most of the stories first appeared in.
• Canon of Sherlock Holmes: Description in Wikipedia.

Some Other Other Useful Works

• William S Dolan's Study Guides to Sherlock Holmes (2001) released through the Beacon Society.