Sherlock Holmes, in order

Arthur Conan Doyle wrote four novels and fifty-six short stories about Sherlock Holmes between 1887 and 1927. All of them are now out of copyright. What is here so far is the heart of the canon, in the order it was written; the Memoirs, The Valley of Fear, His Last Bow and The Case-Book will join the list as Bibliomancer editions of them are published.

A Study in Scarlet (1887) introduces Holmes and Watson and the rooms in Baker Street; The Sign of the Four (1890) gives Watson a wife; the twelve Adventures (1892) are the stories that made Holmes famous; The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) is the novel most readers begin with; and the thirteen stories of The Return (1905) bring Holmes back from the dead.

Each book is complete and typeset by Bibliomancer — the full text of every story, not a selection — free to read online in the Bibliomancer Reader and available in print in the same design, so the set sits together on a shelf. We do not abridge, modernise or “correct” Conan Doyle’s prose.