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, and all of them are here — the complete canon, in the order it was written, with nothing left out and nothing standing in for the real text.

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 Memoirs (1894) end by killing him at the Reichenbach Falls; The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) is the novel most readers begin with, written while Holmes was still supposed to be dead; the thirteen stories of The Return (1905) bring him back; The Valley of Fear (1915) is the last of the novels; and His Last Bow (1917) and The Case-Book (1927) carry him into old age, bee-keeping on the Sussex Downs.

That is nine books: four novels and five collections, fifty-six stories in all. Each is complete and typeset by Bibliomancer — the full text of every story, not a selection — free to read online in the Bibliomancer Reader. Nothing here is abridged, modernised or “corrected”; Conan Doyle’s prose stands as written.