The Sherlock Holmes novels
A study in scarlet
In this fascinating and exciting tale, the two towering creations of detective fiction--Holmes, the master of the science of detection, and Watson, his faithful companion--make their auspicious debut. The two detectives are immediately in fine form as Holmes plucks the solution to the mystery from the heart of Victorian London.
When an Englishwoman receives mysterious gifts of pearls and a letter promising to right wrongs done to her, she calls upon Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to investigate.
The Valley of Fear: A coded warning of imminent danger sends Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to the country house of the reclusive Jack Douglas. When they arrive too late to prevent a tragic death, they must follow bewildering clues and find a murderer.
The Sherlock Holmes short stories
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
A Case of Identity By Arthur Conan Doyle: A young woman's fiancé has vanished on the way to the church
The Red-Headed League By Arthur Conan Doyle: A fiery-haired pawnbroker's mysterious part-time position is cancelled with no explanation
The Boscombe Valley Mystery By Arthur Conan Doyle: A country tenant's son is suspected of his father's murder, but the circumstantial evidence has other interpretations
The Five Orange Pips By Arthur Conan Doyle: A Sussex man's American uncle is killed after receiving a bizarre envelope containing 5 orange seeds
The Man With the Twisted Lip By Arthur Conan Doyle: Watson encounters Holmes by accident in an opium den, where he is trying to find a missing man
The Blue Carbuncle By Arthur Conan Doyle: An abandoned hat gives Holmes the clues to untangle the story of a diamond found in a goose's craw
The Speckled Band By Arthur Conan Doyle: The famous tale of Dr. Grimesby Roylott and his sinister household---and his stepdaughter, who fears for her life, her sister having died in mysterious circumstances
The Engineer's Thumb By Arthur Conan Doyle: A hydraulic engineer comes to Watson with a missing thumb and a story about having been attacked; he was commissioned to repair a leaking hydraulic press, but Holmes finds deeper waters
The Noble Bachelor By Arthur Conan Doyle: A lord's new American bride vanishes during the next morning's wedding breakfast
The Beryl Coronet By Arthur Conan Doyle: A priceless tiara is stolen from the respectable banker who has accepted it as security for a loan to a nobleman
The Copper Beeches By Arthur Conan Doyle: A young governess is offered a handsome position on condition that she cut off her beautiful hair; she comes to Holmes for advice.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Silver Blaze A favored racehorse vanishes and her trainer is found dead a week before a major race the story contains the "curious incident of the dog in the night-time"
The Yellow Face A bewildered husband appeals to Holmes to find out what terrible secret his wife is keeping from him
The Stock-broker's Clerk A clerk in a famous firm is lured away with a bizarre post in a dubious company, and discovers there is trickery afoot
The "Gloria Scott" Holmes's first case A country squire dies of heart failure after receiving an apparently meaningless message
The Musgrave Ritual The key to a disappearance at a country estate is in the meaning of a mysterious ritual handed down in the family
The Reigate Puzzle Holmes is recuperating from his exertions in the country when a local estate is victimized a scrap of paper in a dead footman's hand is the clue
The Crooked Man Narrated mostly by Holmes, in which a secret from the past in India explains the sudden death of an ex-Colonel
The Resident Patient A doctor's eccentric backer and houseguest commits suicide after a visit from mysterious patients
The Greek Interpreter We first meet Sherlock's brother Mycroft at the Diogenes Club here the plot concerns an interpreter who is terrorized through a series of strange professional encounters
The Naval Treaty A young and rising undersecretary is entrusted with a secret treaty that vanishes from his care
The Final Problem The climactic struggle with Professor Moriarty.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
The Empty House: Holmes's apparent death in 1891 revealed to the public in 1893 is finally explained away as a Holmesian deception with the sudden reappearance of Holmes in Watson's life, disguised as a bookseller and on the trail of Col. Sebastian Moran, the most dangerous man in London. His brief account of his travels since 1891--trips to Tibet, Mecca, and "an interesting visit with the Khalifa at Khartoum"--leaves the details to our imagination.
The Norwood Builder: A young man, arrested for the murder of an eccentric old suburban builder, appeals to Holmes to prove his innocence
The Dancing Men: A country gentleman's wife is strangely terrified by the mysterious appearance of chalked stick-figures around their house
The Solitary Cyclist A young woman employed as a live-in music teacher to a mysterious household is pursued by the same man when bicycling every weekend
The Priory School The headmaster of the most elite preparatory school in England recruits Holmes when the son of the country's richest nobleman vanishes from his dormitory some interesting sidelights on the power of class, as well as the source of the much-debated question of whether one can tell a bicycle's direction from its tracks
Black Peter A tyrannical ex-whaling captain is murdered in his room amid references to financial securities
Charles Augustus Milverton: Holmes resorts to burglary to recover indiscreet letters from a blackmailer on commission from a lady
The Six Napoleons A bizarre case in which cheap plaster busts of Napoleon are smashed throughout London
The Three Students A cheating case at an Oxbridge-type university, where Holmes "has been researching Early English charters"
The Golden Pince-Nez The young and irreproachable secretary of a reclusive professor is murdered, and found clutching a pair of spectacles
The Missing Three-Quarter Holmes enters the world of sport when a rugby player is missing before a big match
The Abbey Grange A trouble-making Kentish nobleman and drunkard is murdered and his wife attacked, evidently by burglars one of the times that Holmes circumvents the law in order to work his own form of justice
The Second Stain: Finally recounted after being alluded to darkly in an earlier collection the British Premier enlists Holmes to recover a stolen letter containing state secrets, and a known spy is found murdered.
His Last Bow
The Wisteria Lodge from 1892-- A respectable businessman on an overnight visit to an isolated house finds that his hosts have vanished in the night
The Adventure of the Cardboard Box A harmless old woman receives a box in the post containing two severed ears contains several famous conversations between Holmes and Watson and a reference to Poe
The Adventure of the Red Circle A landlady's worries about a mysterious unseen lodger lead to an international criminal
The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans in 1895-- We meet brother Mycroft once more as he calls on Holmes to recover stolen submarine plans of vital state importance
The Adventure of the Dying Detective Mrs. Hudson summons Watson when Holmes appears to be dying
The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax A lonely older woman vanishes while on a European trip and is found to have been tricked by a notorious criminal
The Adventure of the Devil's Foot in 1897-- The long-suppressed tale of the Cornish Horror, by which three healthy people appeared to die of fright around the card-table in the evening
His Last Bow a German spy is trapped by Holmes-- One sees Doyle's hawkish philosophy regarding war preparation.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
The Adventure of the Illustrious Client Holmes becomes a burglar to stop a noblewoman's marriage to a scoundrelThe Adventure of the Blanched Soldier A young man back from the Boer War is apparently concealed from his friends by his parents---narrated by Holmes, with some friendly jibes at Watson in the beginning
The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone In which Holmes fools a thief into revealing a stolen diamond's location the story takes place entirely in Holmes's rooms and for practical reasons is told in the third person, though both Holmes and Watson are present
The Adventure of the Three Gables Someone tries to buy the entire household effects of a
mystified old woman
The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire A country gentleman suspects his Peruvian wife of bloodsucking
The Adventure of the Three Garridebs Nathan Garrideb asks for help in a most peculiar quest. He is looking for another man with his unusual surname, for it will mean a $5,000,000 inheritance for him.
The Problem of Thor Bridge A killing on a country estate, involving a classic love triangle, but the crime is less obvious than the police think
The Adventure of the Creeping Man A respected university professor has bouts of apparent madness
The Adventure of the Lion's Mane After Holmes's retirement to Sussex and narrated by himself---a young teacher is apparently attacked and tortured while swimming on the beach
The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger A woman with a crime in her past tells Holmes her history
The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place Head trainer John Mason from Shoscombe Old Place, a racing stable in Berkshire, thinks his master, Sir Robert Norberton. Mason has gone mad.
The Adventure of the Retired Colourman Watson is sent to interview an old miser who claims that his wife has run off with his chess partner.
Interesting links
A listing, with summaries, of historical, fictional and canonical characters appearing, or mentioned, in published Sherlock Holmes pastiches, parodies and other Sherlockian writings.
http://www.schoolandholmes.com/index.html
For Sherlock fans:
http://www.sherlockian.net/
