The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

This article is about the short story collection. For other uses, see The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (disambiguation).

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Cover of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Author(s)	Arthur Conan Doyle
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Series	Sherlock Holmes
Genre(s)	Detective fiction short stories
Publisher	George Newnes
Publication date	1892
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	307
ISBN	NA
Preceded by	The Sign of the Four
Followed by	The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective and illustrated by Sidney Paget.

Background

These are the first of the Sherlock Holmes short stories, originally published as single stories in the Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June 1892. The book was published in England on 14 October 1892 by George Newnes Ltd and in a US Edition on 15 October by Harper. The initial combined print run was 14,500 copies.

Contents

The 12 stories in this collection are:

• "A Scandal in Bohemia"
• "The Adventure of 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"

The 1939 film starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce was based on the stage play by William Gillette and was not a direct adaptation of the book.

Reception

The book was banned in the Soviet Union in 1929 for the occultism of its author, although the book shows few to no signs of such material. Later, the embargo was lifted.

External links

• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes at Project Gutenberg
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes at Google Books
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes public domain audiobook from LibriVox