Best Arthur Conan Doyle Books

Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection

Sherlock Holmes • Book 1

by Arthur Conan Doyle, Stephen Fry - introductions

The complete Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes #1-9

by Arthur Conan Doyle

The definitive collection of detective fiction follows Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson through four novels and fifty-six short stories of deductive brilliance. Doyle created the template for analytical detection that every mystery writer since has built upon.

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The definitive collection of detective fiction follows Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson through four novels and fifty-six short stories of deductive brilliance. Doyle created the template for analytical detection that every mystery writer since has built upon.

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes • Book 4

by Arthur Conan Doyle

This collection showcases Holmes at his analytical peak, tackling cases that range from seemingly impossible murders to elaborate schemes spanning decades. Conan Doyle demonstrates why the detective's methods became legendary.

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This collection showcases Holmes at his analytical peak, tackling cases that range from seemingly impossible murders to elaborate schemes spanning decades. Conan Doyle demonstrates why the detective's methods became legendary.

A Study in Scarlet

Sherlock Holmes • Book 1

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Holmes and Watson's initial meeting launches into a murder investigation spanning London and the Mormon frontier. Conan Doyle's origin story shows how the legendary partnership began.

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Holmes and Watson's initial meeting launches into a murder investigation spanning London and the Mormon frontier. Conan Doyle's origin story shows how the legendary partnership began.

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Sherlock Holmes • Book 5

by Arthur Conan Doyle, Akash Chauhan

A supernatural hound supposedly kills the Baskerville heir on the fog-shrouded Devon moors. Doyle's most famous Holmes case perfectly balances gothic atmosphere with logical deduction.

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A supernatural hound supposedly kills the Baskerville heir on the fog-shrouded Devon moors. Doyle's most famous Holmes case perfectly balances gothic atmosphere with logical deduction.

The Valley of Fear

Sherlock Holmes • Book 7

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Holmes investigates a country house murder that connects to Pennsylvania coal mining and secret societies, revealing how American violence reaches across the Atlantic.

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Holmes investigates a country house murder that connects to Pennsylvania coal mining and secret societies, revealing how American violence reaches across the Atlantic.

Sherlock

by Arthur Conan Doyle, Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat

Handpicked by the BBC Sherlock creators, these nineteen tales trace Holmes from his debut in A Study in Scarlet to late classics like The Dying Detective, offering the essential canon that shaped television's most famous consulting detective.

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Handpicked by the BBC Sherlock creators, these nineteen tales trace Holmes from his debut in A Study in Scarlet to late classics like The Dying Detective, offering the essential canon that shaped television's most famous consulting detective.

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

Holmes faces his most memorable adversary in Irene Adler, the only person to ever best the consulting detective. Conan Doyle crafts a perfect introduction to a character who haunts Holmes throughout the canon.

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Holmes faces his most memorable adversary in Irene Adler, the only person to ever best the consulting detective. Conan Doyle crafts a perfect introduction to a character who haunts Holmes throughout the canon.

The Man with the Twisted Lip - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes • Book 6

by Arthur Conan Doyle, Edward Raleigh

A visit to London's underworld opium dens becomes a baffling case when Holmes investigates murder while Watson searches for a friend's missing husband.

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A visit to London's underworld opium dens becomes a baffling case when Holmes investigates murder while Watson searches for a friend's missing husband.

Sherlock Holmes Investigates: The Hound of the Baskervilles

Sherlock Holmes • Book 5

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Holmes faces his most atmospheric case when ancient curses and hellish hounds terrorize the Baskerville family on fog-shrouded English moors.

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Holmes faces his most atmospheric case when ancient curses and hellish hounds terrorize the Baskerville family on fog-shrouded English moors.

Fangs

Vampire Archives • Book 2

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

Classic vampire anthology spans from Clive Barker's visceral horror to Arthur Conan Doyle's Victorian mysteries, exploring centuries of bloodthirsty folklore.

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Classic vampire anthology spans from Clive Barker's visceral horror to Arthur Conan Doyle's Victorian mysteries, exploring centuries of bloodthirsty folklore.

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

Victorian ghost stories possess an unmatched atmospheric darkness that modern horror rarely achieves. This collection gathers the best spectral tales from Dickens, Kipling, and other masters.

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Victorian ghost stories possess an unmatched atmospheric darkness that modern horror rarely achieves. This collection gathers the best spectral tales from Dickens, Kipling, and other masters.

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

Lovecraft's essential 1927 essay 'Supernatural Horror in Literature' guides readers through the genre's evolution, accompanied by the finest stories he celebrated. Classic anthology spanning from Edgar Allan Poe through contemporary British and American masters.

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Lovecraft's essential 1927 essay 'Supernatural Horror in Literature' guides readers through the genre's evolution, accompanied by the finest stories he celebrated. Classic anthology spanning from Edgar Allan Poe through contemporary British and American masters.

Vampire Stories

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

The Sherlock Holmes creator explores vampire fiction through bloodsucking plants and murderous wives in these Gothic tales. Conan Doyle, writing as Bram Stoker's contemporary, revels in supernatural horror from murder mysteries to botanical nightmares.

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The Sherlock Holmes creator explores vampire fiction through bloodsucking plants and murderous wives in these Gothic tales. Conan Doyle, writing as Bram Stoker's contemporary, revels in supernatural horror from murder mysteries to botanical nightmares.