Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories: Volumes I and II

Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories: Volumes I and II (1914) Arthur Conan Doyle

Set in England from 1881 to 1914

A Study In Scarlet

1881

“How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?”

Stamford, Mr. Lestrade, Enoch J. Drebber, Tobias Gregson, Joseph Stangerson, John Rance, Wiggins, Arthur Charpentier, Mr. Jefferson Hope, John Ferrier, Lucy Ferrier

The Sign of Four

1888

Miss Mary Morstan, Mrs. Hudson, Jonathan Small, Mahomet Singh, Abdullah Khan, Dost Akbar, Mr. Thaddeus Sholto, Bartholomew Sholto, McMurdo, Mrs. Bernstone, Mr. Athelney Jones, Mr. Sherman, Mordecai Smith, Jack, Jim, Wiggins, Tonga, Dr. Somerton, Major Sholto, Captain Morstan, Lieutenant Bromley Brown

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

A Scandal in Bohemia

1888

Do you note the peculiar construction of the sentence—‘This account of you we have from all quarters received.’ A Frenchman or Russian could not have written that. It is the German who is so uncourteous to his verbs.

when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman.

Irene Adler, Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond von Ormstein, Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, Mr. Godfrey Norton

The Red-Headed League

1890

Mr. Jabez Wilson, Duncan Ross, Vincent Spaulding, Peter Jones, Mr. Merryweather, John Clay

A Case of Identity

1888

Miss Mary Sutherland, Mr. Hosmer Angel, Mr. James Windibank

The Boscombe Valley Mystery

1888

his tall, gaunt figure made even gaunter and taller by his long gray travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap.

Mr. John Turner, Mr. Charles McCarthy, William Crowder, Mr. James McCarthy, Patience Moran, Mr. Lestrade, Miss Alice Turner, George Meredith, Black Jack of Ballarat

The Five Orange Pips

1887

the wind cried and sobbed like a child in the chimney.

John Openshaw, Colonel Openshaw, Captain James Calhoun

The Man with the Twisted Lip

1889

Mr. Isa Whitney, Kate Whitney, Neville St. Clair, Hugh Boone, Inspector Barton, Mrs. St. Clair, Inspector Bradstreet

The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle

1889

“But his wife—you said that she had ceased to love him.” “This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear Watson, with a week’s accumulation of dust upon your hat, and when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife’s affection.”

Henry Baker, Peterson, John Horner, James Ryder, Catherine Cusack, Mrs. Oakshott

The Adventure of the Speckled Band

1883

Dr. Grimesby Roylott, Helen Stoner, Julia, Miss Honoria Westphail, Percy Armitage

The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb

1889

Mr. Victor Hatherley, Colonel Lysander Stark, Mr. Ferguson, Inspector Bradstreet

The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor

1887

Lord Robert Walsingham de Vere St. Simon, Miss Hatty Doran,  Mr. Aloysius Doran, Miss Flora Millar, Alice, Lestrade, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay

The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet

1889

“It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”

Alexander Holder, Lucy Parr, Arthur, Sir George Burnwell, Miss Mary Holder, Francis Prosper

The Adventure of the Copper Beeches

1890

“(I)t is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.”

Violet Hunter, Miss Alice Rucastle, Jephro Rucastle, Mrs. Rucastle, Toller, Edward, Mrs. Toller, Mr. Fowler,

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Silver Blaze

1890

“Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?”

“To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.”

“The dog did nothing in the night-time.”

“That was the curious incident,” remarked Sherlock Holmes.

John Straker, Colonel Ross, Inspector Gregory, Fitzroy Simpson, Lord Backwater, Silas Brown, Ned Hunter, Edith Baxter, Mrs. Straker

The Yellow Face

1888

It was a long ten minutes before Grant Munro broke the silence, and when his answer came it was one of which I love to think. He lifted the little child, kissed her, and then, still carrying her, he held his other hand out to his wife and turned towards the door. “We can talk it over more comfortably at home,” said he. “I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.”

Mr. Grant Munro, Mrs. Effie Hebron, Lucy

The Stock-Broker’s Clerk

1889?

The public not unnaturally goes on the principle that he who would heal others must himself be whole, and looks askance at the curative powers of the man whose own case is beyond the

Old Mr. Farquhar, Mr. Hall Pycroft, Arthur Pinner

The “Gloria Scott”

1875

Justice of the Peace Trevor, Victor Trevor, Mr. Beddoes, James Armitage, Jack Prendergast, Mereer, Wilson

The Musgrave Ritual

1879

Reginald Musgrave, Richard Brunton, Rachel Howells, Janet Tregellis,

The Reigate Puzzle

1887

Colonel Hayter, Old Acton, Inspector Forrester, William Kirwan, Mr. Cunningham, Mr. Alec Cunningham

The Crooked Man

1888

Jackson, Colonel James Barclay, Mrs. Nancy Barclay, Major Murphy, Miss Morrison, Jane Stewart, Mr. Henry Wood, Simpson

The Resident Patient

1886

Dr. Percy Trevelyan, Blessington, Lanner, Biddle, Hayward, Moffat,

The Greek Interpreter

1888

“Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.”

Mycroft, Mr. Melas, Mr. Harold Latimer, Paul, Kratides, Sophy Kratides, J. Davenport, Inspector Gregson, Wilson Kemp

The Naval Treaty

1889

Percy Phelps, Lord Holdhurst, Joseph Harrison, Annie Harrison, Charles Gorot, Mrs. Tangey, Mr. Forbes the detective, Dr. Ferrier

The Final Problem

1891

It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

Colonel James Moriarty, Professor Moriarty, Peter Steiler, Inspector Patterson

The Hound Of The Baskervilles

1889

There are rumours that he intends to prosecute Dr. Mortimer for opening a grave without the consent of the next of kin because he dug up the neolithic skull in the barrow on Long Down.

James Mortimer, Sir Charles Baskerville, Hugo Baskerville, Barrymore, Murphy, Mr. Henry Baskerville, Mr. Frankland, Mr. Stapleton, Perkins, Rodger Baskerville, Wilson, Cartwright, Theophilus Johnson, Mrs. Oldmore, Mr. James Desmond, John Clayton, Selden, Miss Stapleton, Beryl Garcia, Mr. Frankland, Mrs. Barrymore, Mrs. Laura Lyons, Lestrade, Mr. and Mrs. Vandeleur,

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

The Adventure of the Empty House

1894

The Honourable Ronald Adair, Hilda, Miss Edith Woodley, Mr. Murray, Sir John Hardy, Godfrey Milner, Lord Balmoral, Lady Maynooth, Mrs. Hudson, Mycroft, Monsieur Oscar Meunier, Parker, Lestrade, Colonel Sebastian Moran, Von Herder,

The Adventure of the Norwood Builder

1894

Verner, John Hector McFarlane, Mr. Jonas Oldacre, Lestrade, Mrs. Lexington, Mr. Cornelius,

The Adventure of the Dancing Men

1898

Thurston, Mr. Hilton Cubitt, Elsie Patrick, Inspector Martin, Saunders, Mrs. King, Mr. Abe Slaney, Wilson Hargreave

The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist

1895

“Why didn’t you tell her of her danger?”

“Because then, again, she would have left me, and I couldn’t bear to face that. Even if she couldn’t love me, it was a great deal to me just to see her dainty form about the house, and to hear the sound of her voice.”

“Well,” said I, “you call that love, Mr. Carruthers, but I should call it selfishness.”

Miss Violet Smith, Mr. Carruthers, Mr. Jack Woodley, Cyril Morton, Mrs. Dixon, Mr. Williamson, Peter

The Adventure of the Priory School

1901

“It is the second most interesting object that I have seen in the North.” “And the first?” Holmes folded up his check and placed it carefully in his notebook. “I am a poor man,” said he, as he patted it affectionately, and thrust it into the depths of his inner pocket.

Dr Thorneycroft Huxtable, Edith Appledore, Lord Saltire, Mr. James Wilder, Caunter, Heidegger, Mr. Reuben Hayes, Arthur Saltire, Mrs. Hayes

The Adventure of Black Peter

1895

Captain Peter Carey, Stanley Hopkins, Slater, John Hopley Neligan, James Lancaster, Hugh Pattins, Patrick Cairns

The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton

1899

Lady Eva Blackwell, Charles Augustus Milverton, Miss Miles, Colonel Dorking, Agatha, Countess d’Albert, Mr. Lestrade

The Adventure of the Six Napoleons

1900

Mr. Lestrade, Morse Hudson, Dr. Barnicot, Mr. Horace Harker, Beppo, Mr. Josiah Brown, Mr. Sandeford, Inspector Hill, Pietro Venucci,  Lucretia Venucci

The Adventure of the Three Students

1895

Mr. Hilton Soames, Bannister, Daulat Ras, Gilchrist, Miles McLaren

The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez

1894

Willoughby Smith, Stanley Hopkins, Professor Coram, Mrs. Marker, Susan Tarlton, Mr. Willoughby Smith, Mortimer, Wilson, Anna, Alexis

The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter

1896

For years I had gradually weaned him from that drug mania which had threatened once to check his remarkable career. Now I knew that under ordinary conditions he no longer craved for this artificial stimulus, but I was well aware that the fiend was not dead but sleeping,

Mr. Cyril Overton, Inspector Stanley Hopkins, Godfrey Staunton, Lord Mount-James, Dr. Leslie Armstrong, Mr. Jeremy Dixon

The Adventure of the Abbey Grange

1897

“Come, Watson, come!” he cried. “The game is afoot.”

Sir Eustace, Stanley Hopkins, Sir Eustace Brackenstall, Lady Brackenstall, Miss Mary Fraser, Theresa Wright, Marengo, Mr. Jack Crocker

The Adventure of the Second Stain

1894

Lord Bellinger, Trelawney Hope, Oberstein, La Rothiere, Eduardo Lucas, Mrs. Pringle, Mitton, Police-constable Barret, Mrs. Hudson, Lady Hilda Trelawney Hope, John Mitton, Mme. Henri Fournaye, Lestrade, MacPherson

The Valley of Fear

“I say, Watson,” he whispered, “would you be afraid to sleep in the same room with a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot whose mind has lost its grip?”

“Not in the least,” I answered in astonishment.

“Ah, that’s lucky,” he said, and not another word would he utter that night.

Porlock, Billy, Inspector Alec MacDonald, Mr. John Douglas of Birlstone Manor House, White Mason, Cecil James Barker, Ames, Mrs. Allen, Sergeant Wilson, Dr. Wood, Bodymaster Black Jack McGinty, Hargrave, Ted Baldwin, Brother Mike Scanlan, Brother John McMurdo, Jacob Shafter, Miss Ettie Shafter, Jonas Pinto, Widow MacNamara, Captain Teddy Marvin, James Stanger, Brother Morris, Evans Pott, Birdy Edwards

His Last Bow

The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge

1895

Inspector Gregson, Inspector Baynes, Mr. John Scott Eccles, Mr. Aloysius Garcia, Mrs. Hudson, Lord Harringby, Sir George Ffolliott, Mr. Hynes Hynes, Mr. James Baker Williams, Mr. Henderson, Rev. Joshua Stone, Walters, Mr. Lucas, Miss Burnet, John Warner, Don Murillo, Signora Victor Durando

The Adventure of the Cardboard Box

1889

Miss Susan Cushing, Mr. Lestrade, Mary Cushing, Mr. Jim Browner, Alec Fairbairn

The Adventure of the Red Circle

1902

MRS. Warren, Mr. Fairdale Hobbs, Gregson, Mr. Leverton, Giuseppe Gorgiano, Gennaro Lucca, Emilia Lucca, Tito Castalotte

The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans

1895

“We must fall back upon the old axiom that when all other contingencies fail, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”

Mycroft, Arthur Cadogan West, Miss Violet Westbury, Mason, Lestrade, Sir James Walter, Colonel Valentine Walter, Mr. Sidney Johnson, Adolph Meyer, Louis La Rothière, Hugo Oberstein

The Adventure of the Dying Detective

1888

Mrs. Hudson, Sir Jasper Meek or Penrose Fisher, Mr. Culverton Smith, Inspector Morton, Staples, Victor Savage

The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax

1902

Lady Frances Carfax, Miss Dobney, Miss Marie Devine, M. Moser, Jules Vibart, Dr. Shlessinger, Mrs. Shlessinger, Hon. Philip Green, Fraser

The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot

1897

Dr. Moore Agar, Mr. Roundhay, Mr. Mortimer Tregennis, Owen Tregennis, George Tregennis, Miss Brenda Tregennis, Dr. Richards, Mrs. Porter, Dr. Leon Sterndale,

His Last Bow – An Epilogue of Sherlock Holmes

1914

3rd person. Meh.

Von Bork, Baron Von Herling, Martha

The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes

The Adventure of the Illustrious Client

1902

Sir James Damery, Baron Adelbert Gruner, General de Merville, Violet de Merville, Shinwell Johnson, Miss Kitty Winter, Sir Leslie Oakshott

The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier

1903

No Watson.

Mr. James M. Dodd, Colonel Emsworth, Godfrey Emsworth, Ralph, Mr. Kent, Sir James Saunders

The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone

1903

Meh.

Billy, Mrs. Hudson, Lord Cantlemere, Count Negretto Sylvius, Sam Merton, Ikey Sanders, Van Seddar

The Adventure of the Three Gables

1903

Yuck.

Steve Dixie, Barney Stockdale, Mortimer Maberley, Mary Maberley, Douglas Maberley, Mr. Sutro, Susan, Isadora Klein

The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire

1896

Meh.

Mr. Robert Ferguson, Dolores, Mrs. Mason, Jack,

The Adventure of the Three Garridebs

1902

Meh.

John Garrideb, Mr. Nathan Garrideb, Dr. Lysander Starr, Mrs. Saunders, James Winter, alias Morecroft, alias Killer Evans

The Problem of Thor Bridge

1900

“Do you blame me, Mr. Holmes?”

“I do not blame you for feeling it. I should blame you if you expressed it, since this young lady was in a sense under your protection.”

Mr. James Phillimore, Miss Grace Dunbar, Billy, Mr. Marlow Bates, Mr. Ferguson, Mr. Neil Gibson, Maria Pinto, Sergeant Coventry, Mr. Joyce Cummings

The Adventure of the Creeping Man

1903

Professor Presbury, Mr. Trevor Bennett, Miss Edith Presbury, Alice Morphy, Dorak, MERCER, H. Lowenstein,

The Adventure of the Lion’s Mane

1907

No Watson!

Harold Stackhurst, Fitzroy McPherson, Ian Murdoch, Anderson, Lewes, Miss Maud Bellamy, Tom Bellamy, William Bellamy, Inspector Bardle

The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger

1896

Mrs. Merrilow, Mrs. Eugenia Ronder, Abbas Parva, Leonardo, Jimmy Griggs, Edmunds

The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place

1902

“He is one of those men who have overshot their true generation. He should have been a buck in the days of the Regency—a boxer, an athlete, a plunger on the turf, a lover of fair ladies, and, by all account, so far down Queer Street that he may never find his way back again.”

Sir Robert Norberton, John Mason, Lady Beatrice Falder, Carrie Evans, Sandy Bain, Mr. and Mrs. Norlett, Sam Brewer

The Adventure of the Retired Colourman

1898

Josiah Amberley, Dr. Ray Ernest, Mr. Barker, MacKinnon

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