THE COMPLETESHERLOCK HOLMES

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The Sherlock Holmes stories are illustrated with artwork by Sidney Paget,  Richard Gutschmidt, Frank Wiles, Frederic Dorr Steele and other artists. Explanatory notes will be added eventually, but as this will be a long-term project, your patience is requested.
The page numbers (seen here as links; in the text in brackets) refer to the relevant pages in The Complete Sherlock Holmes published by Doubleday / Penguin Books.

CONTENTS

A STUDY IN SCARLET

Part 1: Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John Watson, M.D., Late of the Army Medical Department
	1. Mr. Sherlock Holmes	15
	2. The Science of Deduction	19
	3. The Lauriston Garden Mystery	25
	4. What John Rance Had to Tell	32
	5. Our Advertisement Brings a Visitor	36
	6. Tobias Gregson Shows What He Can Do	41
	7. Light in the Darkness	46
Part 2: The Country of the Saints
	1. On the Great Alkali Plain	52
	2. The Flower of Utah	58
	3. John Ferrier Talks with the Prophet	62
	4. A Flight for Life	65
	5. The Avenging Angels	71
	6. A Continuation of the Reminiscences of John Watson, M.D.	76
	7. The Conclusion	83

THESIGN OF FOUR

	1. The Science of Deduction	89
	2. The Statement of the Case	94
	3. In Quest of a Solution	97
	4. The Story of the Bald-headed Man	100
	5. The Tragedy of Pondicherry Lodge	106
	6. Sherlock Holmes Gives a Demonstartion	110
	7. The Episode of the Barrel	115
	8. The Baker Street Irregulars	122
	9. A Break in the Chain	128
	10. The End of the Islander	134
	11. The Great Agra Treasure	139
	12. The Strange Story of Jonathan Small	143

ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES

	A Scandal in Bohemia	161
	The Red-headed League	176
	A Case of Identity	190
	The Boscombe Valley Mystery	202
	The Five Orange Pips	217
	The Man with the Twisted Lip	229
	The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle	244
	The Adventure of the Speckled Band	257
	The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb	273
	The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor	287
	The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet	301
	The Adventure of the Copper Beeches	316

MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCKHOLMES

	Silver Blaze	335
	The Yellow Face	350
	The Stock-broker’s Clerk	362
	The “Gloria Scott”	373
	The Musgrave Ritual	386
	The Reigate Puzzle	398
	The Crooked Man	411
	The Resident Patient	422
	The Greek Interpreter	435
	The Naval Treaty	447
	The Final Problem	469

THERETURN OF SHERLOCKHOLMES

	The Adventure of the Empty House	483
	The Adventure of the Norwood Builder	496
	The Adventure of the Dancing Men	511
	The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist	526
	The Adventure of the Priory School	538
	The Adventure of Black Peter	558
	The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton	572
	The Adventure of the Six Napoleons	582
	The Adventure of the Three Students	596
	The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez	607
	The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter	622
	The Adventure of the Abbey Grange	635
	The Adventure of the Second Stain	650

THEHOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES

	1. Mr. Sherlock Holmes	669
	2. The Curse of the Baskervilles	673
	3. The Problem	679
	4. Sir Henry Baskerville	685
	5. Three Broken Threads	692
	6. Baskerville Hall	698
	7. The Stapletons of the Merripit House	704
	8. First Report of Dr. Watson	712
	9. Second Report of Dr. Watson	716
	10. Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson	726
	11. The Man on the Tor	732
	12. Death on the Moor	740
	13. Fixing the Nets	747
	14. The Hound of the Baskervilles	754
	15. A Retrospection	761

THEVALLEY OF FEAR

Part 1: The Tragedy of Birlstone
	1. The Warning	769
	2. Sherlock Holmes Discourses	774
	3. The Tragedy of Birlstone	779
	4. Darkness	784
	5. The People of the Drama	791
	6. A Dawning Light	798
	7. The Solution	806
Part 2: The Scowres
	1. The Man	815
	2. The Bodymaster	820
	3. Lodge 341, Vermissa	830
	4. The Valley of Fear	839
	5. The Darkest Hour	846
	6. Danger	853
	7. The Trapping of Biry Edwards	859
	Epilogue	865

HISLAST BOW

	The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge
		1. The Singular Experience of Mr. John Scott Eccles	869
		2. The Tiger of San Pedro	877
	The Adventure of the Cardboard Box		888
	The Adventure of the Red Circle		901
	The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans		913
	The Adventure of the Dying Detective		932
	The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax		942
	The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot		954
	His Last Bow		970

THECASE-BOOK OFSHERLOCK HOLMES

THE BEST OF SHERLOCK HOLMES

There are two famous lists of favourite stories—Arthur Conan Doyle’s own list from March 1927, and the list published in 1959 in the Baker Street Journal:

CONAN DOYLE’S LIST		BAKER STREET JOURNAL
The Speckled Band	1	The Speckled Band
The Red-Headed League	2	The Red-Headed League
The Dancing Men	3	The Blue Carbuncle
The Final Problem	4	Silver Blaze
A Scandal in Bohemia	5	A Scandal in Bohemia
The Empty House	6	The Musgrave Ritual
The Five Orange Pips	7	The Bruce-Partington Plans
The Second Stain	8	The Six Napoleons
The Devil's Foot	9	The Dancing Men
The Priory School	10	The Empty House
The Musgrave Ritual	11
The Reigate Squires	12