Best Arthur Conan Doyle Books

The best books by Arthur Conan Doyle — 14 titles spanning Mystery, Horror, averaging 4.01 BLT stars.

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Arthur Conan Doyle didn't invent the detective story, but he perfected it. Sherlock Holmes — first introduced in A Study in Scarlet and brought to his gothic peak in The Hound of the Baskervilles — remains the template against which every fictional detective is still measured. Doyle's prose is brisk and atmospheric, his mysteries built on deductive logic so precisely laid out that the solutions feel both inevitable and surprising. What's often underappreciated is the range: beyond Holmes, Doyle wrote genuinely unsettling horror, and his Vampire Stories show a darker, more visceral imagination at work. Holmes himself is a creation of almost mythological staying power — cold, brilliant, deeply strange — and readers who love a detective with a genuine inner life keep coming back. For anyone who wants their mysteries intelligent and their atmosphere thick, Doyle is the original.

Arthur Conan Doyle's highest-rated book in our collection is Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection (4.97 BLT stars). Browse the full list below.

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    Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection

    Sherlock Holmes • Book 1

    by Arthur Conan Doyle, Stephen Fry - introductions

    ★ 4.97 BLT Score (217.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.51 Goodreads (217.9K)
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    The complete Sherlock Holmes

    Sherlock Holmes #1-9

    by Arthur Conan Doyle

    ★ 4.82 BLT Score (217.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.51 Goodreads (217.8K)
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    The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

    Sherlock Holmes • Book 4

    by Arthur Conan Doyle

    ★ 4.34 BLT Score (106.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.29 Goodreads (106.3K)
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    The Hound of the Baskervilles

    Sherlock Holmes • Book 5

    by Arthur Conan Doyle, Akash Chauhan

    ★ 4.17 BLT Score (392.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.14 Goodreads (392.2K)
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    A Study in Scarlet

    Sherlock Holmes • Book 1

    by Arthur Conan Doyle

    ★ 4.17 BLT Score (499.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.13 Goodreads (499.1K)
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    The Valley of Fear

    Sherlock Holmes • Book 7

    by Arthur Conan Doyle

    ★ 4.02 BLT Score (56.2K ratings)
    ★ 3.96 Goodreads (56.2K)
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    Sherlock

    by Arthur Conan Doyle, Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat

    ★ 3.90 BLT Score (457 ratings)
    ★ 4.33 Goodreads (457)
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    Sherlock Holmes in A Scandal in Bohemia (The Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Book 4)

    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes • Book 1

    by Arthur Conan Doyle

    ★ 3.82 BLT Score (12.7K ratings)
    ★ 3.83 Goodreads (12.7K)
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    Sherlock Holmes Investigates: The Hound of the Baskervilles

    Sherlock Holmes • Book 5

    by Arthur Conan Doyle

    ★ 3.80 BLT Score (63 ratings)
    ★ 3.95 Goodreads (63)
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    The Man with the Twisted Lip - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes • Book 6

    by Arthur Conan Doyle, Edward Raleigh

    ★ 3.76 BLT Score (7.3K ratings)
    ★ 3.81 Goodreads (7.3K)
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    The Phantom Coach: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Ghost Stories (The Connoisseur's Collections)

    by Michael Sims, Elizabeth Gaskell, Amelia B. Edwards, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, Robert W. Chambers, Mrs. Oliphant, W.W. Jacobs, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Rudyard Kipling, Ambrose Bierce, W.F. Harvey

    ★ 3.67 BLT Score (295 ratings)
    ★ 3.73 Goodreads (295)
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    Fangs

    Vampire Archives • Book 2

    by Otto Penzler, Kim Newman, Clive Barker, Anne Rice, Arthur Conan Doyle, Erik Davies

    ★ 3.64 BLT Score (160 ratings)
    ★ 3.78 Goodreads (160)
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    H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural

    by Stephen Jones, Henry James, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, Guy de Maupassant, Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Conan Doyle, Davina Porter, Steven Crossley, Bronson Pinchot

    ★ 3.62 BLT Score (339 ratings)
    ★ 3.68 Goodreads (339)
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    Vampire Stories

    by Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Eighteen-Bisang, Martin H. Greenberg

    ★ 3.50 BLT Score (492 ratings)
    ★ 3.55 Goodreads (492)
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