The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Cover of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Author	Arthur Conan Doyle
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Series	Sherlock Holmes
Genre	Detective fiction short stories
Publisher	George Newnes
Publication date	1892[1]
Preceded by	The Sign of the Four
Followed by	The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective, and illustrated by Sidney Paget.

Contents

The 12 stories in this collection are:

• "A Scandal in Bohemia"; Client: The King of Bohemia
• "The Adventure of the Red-Headed League"; Client: Jabez Wilson
• "A Case of Identity"; Client: Mary Sutherland
• "The Boscombe Valley Mystery"; Client: Alice Turner
• "The Five Orange Pips"; Client: John Openshaw
• "The Man with the Twisted Lip"; Client: Mrs. St. Clair
• "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle"; No client.
• "The Adventure of the Speckled Band"; Client: Miss Helen Stoner
• "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb"; Client: Victor Hatherley
• "The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor"; Client: Lord Robert St. Simon
• "The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet"; Client: Alexander Holder
• "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches"; Client: Violet Hunter

Reception

The book was banned in the Soviet Union in 1929 for its author's occultism, although the book shows few to no signs of such material. The embargo was later lifted.^[2]

References

External links

Wikisource has original text related to this article: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes at Project Gutenberg
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes public domain audiobook at LibriVox

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