Books published by publisher Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930)was a Scottish author most noted for his stories about thedetective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a majorinnovation in the field of crime fiction, and the adventures ofProfessor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other worksinclude science fiction stories, historical novels, plays andromances, poetry, and non-fiction. Conan was originally a givenname, but Doyle used it as part of his surname in his later years.

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930)was a Scottish author most noted for his stories about thedetective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a majorinnovation in the field of crime fiction, and the adventures ofProfessor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other worksinclude science fiction stories, historical novels, plays andromances, poetry, and non-fiction. Conan was originally a givenname, but Doyle used it as part of his surname in his later years.

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930)was a Scottish author most noted for his stories about thedetective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a majorinnovation in the field of crime fiction, and the adventures ofProfessor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other worksinclude science fiction stories, historical novels, plays andromances, poetry, and non-fiction. Conan was originally a givenname, but Doyle used it as part of his surname in his later years.

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scottish born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based detective, Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess, and is renowned for his skillful use of deductive reasoning (somewhat mistakenly - see inductive reasoning) and astute observation to solve difficult cases. He is arguably the most famous fictional detective

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective and illustrated by Sidney Paget.These are the first of the Sherlock Holmes short stories, originally published as single stories in the Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June 1892. The book was published in England on October 14, 1892 by George Newnes Ltd and in a US Edition on October 15 by Harper. The initial combined print run was 14,500 copies.

My friend, Lionel Dacre, lived in the Avenue de Wagram, Paris. His house was that small one, with the iron railings and grass plot in front of it, on the left-hand side as you pass down from the Arc de Triomphe. I fancy that it had been there long before the avenue was constructed, for the grey tiles were stained with lichens, and the walls were mildewed and discoloured with age. It looked a small house from the street, five windows in front, if I remember right, but it deepened into a single long chamber at the back. It was here that Dacre had that singular library of occult literature, and the fantastic curiosities which served as a hobby for himself, and an amusement for his friends. A wealthy man of refined and eccentric tastes, he had spent much of his life and fortune in gathering together what was said to be a unique private collection of Talmudic, cabalistic, and magical works, many of them of great rarity and value. His tastes leaned toward the marvellous and the monstrous, and I have heard that his experiments in the direction of the unknown have passed all the bounds of civilization and of decorum. To his English friends he never alluded to such matters, and took the tone of the student and virtuoso; but a Frenchman whose tastes were of the same nature has assured me that the worst excesses of the black mass have been perpetrated in that large and lofty hall, which is lined with the shelves of his books, and the cases of his museum.

To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed himself in a false position.