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Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)

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Scottish author of Irish descent most famously known for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes
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Arthur Conan Doyle

Works

Sherlock Holmes

Expanded description at Sherlock Holmes bibliography

• A Study in Scarlet (1887) (Green #A1)
• The Sign of the Four (1890)
  • The Sign of the Four; or, The Problem of the Sholtos (transcription project) [starting at 166, ending at 245] (Original Publication in the February 1890 issue of Lippicotts Magazine}}
  • The Sign of the Four (1890) (Green #A7)
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1891–1892) (Green #A10) , containing:
  • A Scandal in Bohemia
  • The Red-Headed League
  • A Case of Identity
  • The Boscombe Valley Mystery
  • The Five Orange Pips
  • The Man with the Twisted Lip
  • The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
  • The Adventure of the Speckled Band
  • The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb
  • The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor
  • The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet
  • The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
• The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1892–1893) (Green #A14)
  • New York edition: (transcription project)
  • London edition: (transcription project))
• The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901–1902) (Green #A26)
• The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1903–1905) (Green #A29)
• The Valley of Fear (1914–1915) (Green #A39)
• His Last Bow (1917) (Green #A40)
  • New York edition (transcription project)
• The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927, Portions Copyrighted until 2022) (Renewal: R149513) (Green #A46)
  • The Adventure of the Illustrious Client
  • The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier
  • The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone
  • The Adventure of the Three Gables
  • The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire (1924)
  • The Adventure of the Three Garridebs
  • The Problem of Thor Bridge (1922)
  • The Adventure of the Creeping Man (1923)
  • The Adventure of the Lion's Mane
  • The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger
  • The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place
  • The Adventure of the Retired Colourman
• The Field Bazaar from the Student, Edinburgh, 1896 (Green #A48)

The Napoleonic Tales

• The Great Shadow (1892) (transcription project)
• The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard (1896) (transcription project)
• Uncle Bernac (1897) (transcription project)
• The Adventures of Gerard (1903)
  • McClure edition (transcription project)
  • Burt edition (transcription project)
  • Morang edition (transcription project)
  • Second Edition (transcription project)

The Professor Challenger works

• The Lost World (1912)
• The Poison Belt (1913)
• The Land of Mist (1926) – Copyrighted in the United States until 2022 due to (Renewal: R128774 )
• When the World Screamed (short story, 1928)
• The Disintegration Machine (1929) – Copyrighted in the United States until 2024 due to (Renewal: R177202 )

Other novels

• The Mystery of Cloomber (1889) (Green #A2) No scan on IA April 2021.
• Micah Clarke (1889) (Green #A3) (transcription project)
• The Firm of Girdlestone : a Romance of the Unromantic (1890) (Green #A6)
• The White Company (1891) (Green #A8)
• Beyond the City (1892) (Green #A13) No scan on IA April 2021.
• The Doings of Raffles Haw (1892) (Green #A9) (transcription project)
• The Refugees (1893) (Green #A12) (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3)
• The Parasite (1894) (Green #A17) No scan on IA April 2021.
• The Stark Munro Letters (1895) (Green #A18) (transcription project)
• Rodney Stone (1896) (Green #A20) (transcription project)
• The Tragedy of the Korosko, A Desert Drama (1898) (Green #A22) (transcription project)
• A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus (1899) (Green #A24) (transcription project)
• Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose (1900; co-author with Grant Allen) (Green #C4) (transcription project)
• Sir Nigel (1906) (Green #A30) (transcription project)

Other short stories and collections

• Mysteries and Adventures or The Gully of Bluemansdyke and Other Stories (1889) (Green #A4)
  • The Gully of Bluemansdyke
  • The Parson of Jackman's Gulch
  • My Friend the Murderer
  • The Silver Hatchet
  • The Man from Archangel
  • That Little Square Box
  • A Night Among the Nihilists

• The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales (1890) (Green #A5)
  • The Captain of the Pole-Star
  • J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement
  • The Great Keinplatz Experiment
  • The Man from Archangel
  • That Little Square Box
  • John Huxford's Hiatus
  • A Literary Mosaic
  • John Barrington Cowles
  • The Parson of Jackman's Gulch
  • The Ring of Thoth

• An Actor's Duel, and the Winning Shot (1894) (Green #A15)

• Round the Red Lamp (1894) (Green #A16)
  • The Preface
  • Behind the Times
  • His First Operation
  • A Straggler of '15
  • The Third Generation
  • A False Start
  • The Curse of Eve
  • Sweethearts
  • A Physiologist's Wife
  • The Case of Lady Sannox
  • A Question of Diplomacy
  • A Medical Document
  • Lot No. 249
  • The Los Amigos Fiasco
  • The Doctors of Hoyland
  • The Surgeon Talks

• The Mystery of Sasassa Valley (1896)

• The Green Flag and Other Stories of War and Sport , 1905 edition (1900) (Green #A25)
  • The Green Flag (1893)
  • Captain Sharkey

    I. How the Governor of Saint Kitt's came Home (1897); also known as The Governor of Saint Kitts

    II. The Dealings of Captain Sharkey with Stephen Craddock (1897); also known as The Two Barks

    III. How Copley Banks slew Captain Sharkey (1897); also known as The Voyage of Copley Banks

  • The Crime of the Brigadier (1900)
  • The Croxley Master (1899)
  • The Slapping Sal (1893)
  • The Lord of Chateau Noir (1894)
  • The Striped Chest (1897)
  • A Shadow Before (1898)
  • The King of the Foxes (1898)
  • The Three Correspondents (1896)
  • The New Catacomb (1898)
  • The Debut of Bimbashi Joyce (1900)
  • A Foreign Office Romance (1894)

• Round the Fire Stories (1908) (Green #A33)
  1. The Leather Funnel (1902)
  2. The Beetle Hunter (1898)
  3. The Man with the Watches (1898)
  4. The Pot of Caviare (1908)
  5. The Japanned Box (1899)
  6. The Black Doctor (1898)
  7. Playing with Fire (1900)
  8. The Jew's Breastplate (1899)
  9. The Lost Special (1898)
  10. The Club-Footed Grocer (1898)
  11. The Sealed Room (1898)
  12. The Brazilian Cat (1898)
  13. The Usher of Lea House School (1899)
  14. The Brown Hand (1899)
  15. The Fiend of the Cooperage (1897)
  16. Jelland's Voyage (1892)
  17. B.24 (1899)

• The Last Galley. Tales and Impressions (1911) (Green #A35)
  1. The Last Galley (1910)
  2. The Contest (1911)
  3. Through the Veil (not separately published)
  4. An Iconoclast (1911)
  5. Giant Maximin (1911)
  6. The Coming of the Huns (1910)
  7. The Last of the Legions (1910)
  8. The First Cargo (1910)
  9. The Home-Coming (1909) (a.k.a. The Homecoming)
  10. The Red Star (1911)
  11. The Silver Mirror (1908)
  12. The Blighting of Sharkey (1911)
  13. The Marriage of the Brigadier (1910)
  14. The Lord of Falconbridge (1909)
  15. Out of the Running (1892)
  16. "De Profundis" (1892)
  17. The Great Brown-Pericord Motor (1892)
  18. The Terror of Blue John Gap (1910)

• Danger! and Other Stories (1918) (Green #A41) (Commons file)
  • Danger! (1914)
  • One Crowded Hour (1911)
  • A Point of View (1918)
  • The Fall of Lord Barrymore (1912)
  • The Horror of the Heights (1913)
  • Borrowed Scenes (1913)
  • The Surgeon of Gaster Fell (1890)
  • How It Happened (1913)
  • The Prisoner's Defence (1916)
  • Three of Them (1918)
  • Speculations (1918)
  • The Leatherskin Tribe (1918)

• Tales of the Ring and Camp (U.S. edition: The Croxley Master and Other Tales of the Ring and Camp) (1922) (Green #A50)

• Tales of Pirates and Blue Water (U.S. edition: The Dealings of Captain Sharkey and Other Tales of Pirates) (1922) (Green #A51)

• Tales of Terror and Mystery (U.S. edition: The Black Doctor and Other Tales of Terror and Mystery) (1922) (Green #A52); all but The Nightmare Room appeared in previous other collections.
  • Tales of Terror
    • The Horror of the Heights (1913)
    • The Leather Funnel (1902)
    • The New Catacomb (1898)
    • The Case of Lady Sannox (1893)
    • The Terror of Blue John Gap (1910)
    • The Brazilian Cat (1898)
  • Tales of Mystery
    • The Lost Special (1898)
    • The Beetle-Hunter (1898)
    • The Man with the Watches (1898)
    • The Japanned Box (1899)
    • The Black Doctor (1898)
    • The Jew's Breastplate (1899)
    • The Nightmare Room (1921)

• Tales of Twilight and the Unseen (U.S. edition: The Great Keinplatz Experiment and Other Tales of Twilight and the Unseen) (1922) (Green #A53); all but The Lift appeared in previous other collections.
  • The Brown Hand
  • The Usher of Lea House School
  • B. 24
  • The Great Keinplatz Experiment
  • Cyprian Overbeck Wells
  • Playing with Fire
  • The Ring of Thoth
  • The Los Amigos Fiasco
  • How It Happened
  • Lot No. 249
  • "De Profundis"
  • The Lift

• Tales of Adventure and Medical Life (U.S. edition: The Man from Archangel and Other Tales of Adventure) (1922) (Green #A54)
• Tales of Long Ago (U.S. edition: The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago) (1922) (Green #A55)
• cowrote The Fate of Fenella (1892)
• The Maracot Deep and Other Stories (1929) – Copyrighted in the United States until 2024 due to (Renewal: R177201 )

Stage material

• Jane Annie (1893, libretto, co-authored)
• A Story of Waterloo (1894)
• The Fires of Fate (1909, dramatization of The Tragedy of the Korosko)
• The House of Temperley (1910, dramatization of Rodney Stone)

Poetry

• Songs of Action (1898)
  • The Song of the Bow
  • Cremona
  • The Storming Party
  • The Frontier Line
  • Corporal Dick's Promotion
  • A Forgotten Tale
  • Pennarby Mine
  • A Rover Chanty
  • A Ballad of the Ranks
  • A Lay of the Links
  • The Dying Whip
  • Master
  • H.M.S. 'Foudroyant'
  • The Farnshire Cup
  • The Groom's Story
  • With the Chiddingfolds
  • A Hunting Morning
  • The Old Gray Fox
  • 'Ware Holes
  • The Home-coming of the 'Eurydice'
  • The Inner Room
  • The Irish Colonel
  • The Blind Archer
  • A Parable
  • A Tragedy
  • The Passing
  • The Franklin's Maid
  • The Old Huntsman
• Songs of the Road (1911)
  • A Hymn of Empire
  • Sir Nigel's Song
  • The Arab Steed
  • A Post-Impressionist
  • Empire Builders
  • The Groom's Encore
  • The Bay Horse
  • The Outcasts
  • The End
  • 1902-1909
  • The Wanderer
  • Bendy's Sermon
  • Compensation
  • The Banner of Progress
  • Hope
  • Religio Medici
  • Man's Limitation
  • Mind and Matter
  • Darkness
  • A Woman's Love
  • By The North Sea
  • December's Snow
  • Shakespeare's Expostulation
  • The Empire
  • A Voyage
  • The Orphanage
  • Sexagenarius Loquitor
  • Night Voices
  • The Message
  • The Echo
  • Advice to a Young Author
  • A Lilt of the Road
• Songs of the Road (1922, edition of Doyle's collected poems with added texts)
  • The Farewell
  • Now Then, Smith
  • To My Lady
  • A Reminiscence of Cricket
• The Guards Came Through, and Other Poems (1919)

Anthologized

• From A Treasury of War Poetry, ... 1914-1919 (1917):
  • "The Guns in Sussex", p. 158; "The Guards Came Through", p. 203.

Spiritualist works

• The New Revelation, or What Is Spiritualism (1918)
• The Vital Message (1919)
• The Wanderings of a Spiritualist (1921)
• The Case For Spirit Photography (1922)
• The Coming of the Fairies (1922)
• The Spiritualist's Reader (1924)
• The History Of Spiritualism (1926)

Works on current affairs

• The Great Boer War (1900)
• The War in South Africa; its cause and conduct (1902)
• The Crime of the Congo (1909) (Commons file)
• The German War: sidelights and reflections (1914)
• The British Campaign in France and Flanders (1916–1919)
• A Visit to Three Fronts (1916)
• The Case of Oscar Slater (1912)
• "Merry England in the War" (article in Collier's magazine, Oct 2, 1915)

Literary criticism

• Through the Magic Door (1907)

Personal memoirs

• "Life on a Greenland Whaler," in McClure's Magazine, March 1897
• Our American Adventure (1923) (external scan)
• Memories and Adventures (1924) (external scan)
• Our Second American Adventure (1924)
• Our African Winter (1929)

Works about Conan Doyle

• "Doyle, Dr. Conan," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
• "Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, LL.D.," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)

References

• For a detailed bibliography of Doyles's works see Richard Lancelyn Green and John Michael Gibson, A Bibliography of A. Conan Doyle, New Revised and Expanded Edition, Boston London and New York, Hudson House, 2000, ©1999. References in the form "(Green, A20)" are to this work.