Mystery & Detective
A Study in Scarlet
The first Sherlock Holmes story introduces the detective pair and shows how clues, retrospective explanation and narrative structure fit together
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Books by Arthur Conan Doyle
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14 books listed3 collections represented8 catalogue themes
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Mystery & Detective
The Adventure of the Crooked Man
Holmes investigates the strange death of a retired army officer, reconstructing a hidden past and a marriage in which appearances conceal a much more complicated story
Mystery & Detective
The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter
Holmes investigates a kidnapping case brought to him by his brother Mycroft, revealing Mycroft’s unusual intelligence and the limits of Holmes’s more familiar methods
Mystery & Detective
The Adventure of the Resident Patient
Holmes investigates a strange case involving a doctor’s patient and a disturbing chain of events, relying on observation and deduction
Mystery & Detective
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
A collection that establishes Holmes through varied cases, letting readers see his observation, inference and narrative partnership with Dr. Watson in different forms
Mystery & Detective
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Holmes and Watson investigate a death on the Baskerville estate where a family legend about a supernatural hound appears to have become frighteningly real
Science Fiction & Speculative
The Lost World
Arthur Conan Doyle sends Professor Challenger and his companions to a remote plateau where prehistoric creatures survive, combining exploration, scientific curiosity, danger, and adventure
Science Fiction & Speculative
The Maracot Deep
A deep-sea expedition becomes an encounter with a lost civilization beneath the Atlantic, mixing exploration, scientific speculation, and adventure with a vanished-world premise
Mystery & Detective
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Holmes stories with a broader range of tone and case structure, useful for readers who already know the basic Watson-and-Holmes formula
Classics & Literature
The Poison Belt
Professor Challenger gathers his companions as a mysterious cosmic phenomenon threatens life on Earth, forcing them to confront scientific uncertainty and human mortality
Mystery & Detective
The return of sherlock holmes
The Return of Sherlock Holmes brings Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous detective back after the events that had apparently ended his career. Holmes’s reappearance is itself part of the pleasure, but the real engine of the collection is the return to the classic Holmes method: observe everything
Mystery & Detective
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
A later Holmes collection that restores the detective to the center of a new run of puzzles, disguises, crimes and deductions
Mystery & Detective
The Sign of Four
A Holmes mystery combining a locked-room atmosphere, colonial treasure, pursuit and the Thames with one of the series’ clearer adventure plots
Classics & Literature
Uncle bernac
Uncle Bernac is an adventure novel set against the Napoleonic era, combining political danger, espionage, family mystery, disguise, and the atmosphere of France under Napoleon. Arthur Conan Doyle follows a young Englishman drawn into a journey across revolutionary and imperial territory, where
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