Edinburgh, Scotland
Although best known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle's work includes science fiction, historical romance and books on warfare and spiritualism. The first Sherlock Homes novel appeared in 1887 and the fictional detective soon brought fame and fortune - though Doyle always maintained his historical romances held more worth. Influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Doyle's work often demonstrates a similar contrasting of the rational and the imaginative.
Holmes helps a banker from whom some expensive gems, taken as security on a loan to an important client, have been stolen.
Spending a night in the library of an old friend and scholar of the black arts, the narrator becomes curious about the object in question.
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A university friend asks Holmes to help explain the disappearance of a butler shortly after he had been discovered taking an interest in a s
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Just as he is about to be arrested for the murder of a client, a young lawyer pays a visit on Holmes and begs him to help prove his innocenc
Several years after the events described in 'The Final Problem', Dr Watson takes an interest in the murder of Ronald Adair who was shot in a
A scientific city-man encounters the legend of a terrifying monster when he retires to Derbyshire.
Holmes comes to the aid of a civil servant who has fallen on hard times following the theft of an important treaty placed in his care.
Holmes investigates the murder of a popular and apparently happily married Colonel.
A Christmas mystery for detective Sherlock Holmes beginning with a lost hat and an abandoned goose.
A pioneering aviator begins to suspect that the official explainations cannot account for the constant stream of in-air deaths and disappear
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Holmes comes to the aid of the King of Bohemia, a case which brings him into contact with the adventuress Irene Adler.
An ill-tempered ex-ship's-captain is brutally murdered, pinned agaist the wall of his garden shed by a harpoon.
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