The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of The Strand Magazine, in which they were first published, and won immense popularity for Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. The detective is at the height of his powers and the volume is full of famous cases, including `The Red-Headed League', `The Blue Carbuncle', and `The Speckled Band'. Although Holmes gained a reputation for infallibility, Conan Doyle showed his own realism and feminism by having the great detective defeated by Irene Adler - the woman - in the very first story, `A Scandal in Bohemia'.

A Chronology of Arthur Conan Doyle
THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
BL A Scandal in Bohemia
BL A Case of Identity
BL The Red-Headed League
BL The Boscombe Valley Mystery
BL The Five Orange Pips
BL The Man with the Twisted Lip
BL The Blue Carbuncle
BLThe Speckled Band
BL The Engineer's Thumb
BL The Noble Bachelor
BL The Beryl Coronet
BL The Copper Beeches
Explanatory Notes

Arthur Conan Doyle

Edited by Catherine Wynne , Reader in Victorian and Early Twentieth-Century Literature and Visual Culture, University of Hull

Dr Catherine Wynne is Reader in English at the University of Hull. She has published extensively on Conan Doyle and on nineteenth-century culture. The Colonial Conan Doyle was published in 2002 and her most recent work on Doyle ('Neo-Holmesian Fiction') was published in The Cambridge Companion to Sherlock Holmes in 2019. Her publications on Doyle focus on the Gothic, Empire and colonialism and trauma. She has most recently published a biography of war artist and traveller, Lady Butler.