My biggest surprise after completing Arthur Conan Doyle’s “Sherlock Holmes” literary canon is that he lays the groundwork for bigger stories more so than writing
Arthur Conan Doyle writes his last dozen Holmes stories from 1921-27, collected in “The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes” (1927), as if knowing they will be
Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes output slowed as he built up entries for his second-to-last book, “His Last Bow” (1917), which gathers eight short stories
Modern mystery readers are surprised by Arthur Conan Doyle’s structure for his first Sherlock Holmes novel, “A Study in Scarlet” (1887): We get the full
For today’s readers, Sherlock Holmes didn’t stay dead for long. “Killed off” in “The Final Problem,” he re-emerges in the next-published short story, “The Adventure
Nowadays mystery authors dream of creating a cash-cow detective like Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot or The Continental Op. So it’s not like readers and authors
“The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” (1892) is simultaneously a timelessly great read – with deliberate yet steadily moving prose that flows like honey today –
Sherlock Holmes didn’t take off as a popular character with his second novel, “The Sign of Four” (sometimes titled “The Sign of the Four,” 1890);
In his second-most-famous Sherlock Holmes novel, “A Study in Scarlet” (1887), Arthur Conan Doyle branches into a Western for a while. And in his most
“A Study in Scarlet” (1887), Arthur Conan Doyle’s first Sherlock Holmes novel and a formative entry in the burgeoning mystery genre, remains entertaining 137 years