The Baker Street Dozen

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's thirteen favorite Sherlock Holmes stories, each accompanied by an essay by a prominent Sherlockian, along with various interludes, curiosities & miscellanea. [Adventure of the Speckled Band](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262561W/Adventure_of_the_Speckled_Band) [Red-Headed League](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262476W/The_Red-Headed_League) [Adventure of the Dancing Men](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262417W/The_Dancing_Men) Final Problem [Scandal in Bohemia](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14930611W/A_Scandal_in_Bohemia) [Adventure of the Empty House](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518119W/The_Adventure_of_the_Empty_House) [Five Orange Pips](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518120W/Five_Orange_Pips) [Second Stain](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL18191864W/Second_Stain) Adventure of the devil's foot [Adventure of the Priory School](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518319W/Adventure_of_the_Priory_School) [Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20619374W/Adventure_of_the_Musgrave_Ritual) Adventure of the Reigate Squire [Silver Blaze](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518358W/Silver_Blaze)

subjects: air guns,  Americans,  amorality,  ancestors,  Anglo-Saxons,  anonymity,  aristocracy,  asphyxiation,  attempted murder,  banks,  baritsu,  barques,  butlers,  cabinet cards,  cattle,  cavaliers,  Children's stories,  coal tar,  Confederate States Army,  crime bosses,  Criticism,  deformities,  detective fiction,  elms,  Encyclopædia Britannica,  English children's stories,  English detective and mystery stories,  Fiction,  forges,  frequency analysis,  gemstones,  gold,  hanging,  history and criticism,  Honourable Society of the Inner Temple,  horse gaits,  horse racing,  horseshoes,  interpretation,  Juvenile audience,  Ku Klux Klan,  locked-room mysteries,  maids,  maps,  meres,  moorland,  murder-suicide,  Mystery and detective stories,  oaks,  opium,  pawnbrokers,  penal labour,  police inspectors,  preparatory schools,  prima donnas,  prime ministers,  Private investigators,  race horses,  ransoms,  red hair,  riddles,  Romani,  sailing ships,  scalpels,  school caps,  secretaries of state,  smoke bombs,  soft-point bullets,  stick figures,  substitution ciphers,  traps,  wax sculptures,  weddings,  whist,  Private investigators in literature,  Sherlock Holmes (Fictitious character)

People: Sherlock Holmes,  John H. Watson,  Stroke Moran,  Helen Stoner,  Grimesby Roylott,  Jabez Wilson,  Vincent Spaulding,  Duncan Ross,  Police Inspector Jones,  Mr. Merryweather,  John Clay,  Archie,  Hilton Cubitt,  Elsie Patrick,  Abe Slaney,  Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond von Ormstein,  Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meiningen,  Irene Adler,  Godfrey Norton,  Ronald Adair,  Earl of Maynooth,  Sebastian Moran,  James Moriarty,  Mycroft Holmes,  Inspector G. Lestrade,  John Openshaw,  Openshaw,  Lord Bellinger,  Trelawney Hope,  Eduardo Lucas,  Hilda Trelawney Hope,  Arthur Conan Doyle,  Thorneycroft Huxtable,  Lord Saltire,  Duke of Holdernesse,  Heidegger,  James Wilder,  Reuben Hayes,  Reginald Musgrave,  Rachel Howells,  Richard Brunton,  King Charles I,  King Charles II,  Fitzroy Simpson,  Silver Blaze,  Colonel Ross,  John Straker,  Ned Hunter,  William Derbyshire,  Silas Brown,  Inspector Gregory

Places: England,  Calcutta,  India,  Surrey,  London,  Baker Street,  Ridling Thorpe Manor,  Norfolk,  United States,  Chicago,  Bohemia,  Scandinavia,  Warsaw,  221B Baker Street,  Church of St. Monica,  Edgware Road,  Charing Cross railway station,  Maynooth,  Australia,  427 Park Lane,  Kensington,  Reichenbach Falls,  Florence,  Tibet,  Lhasa,  Persia,  Mecca,  Khartoum,  Camden House,  Montpellier,  France,  Horsham,  West Sussex,  Florida,  Pondicherry,  Dundee,  River Thames,  Georgia,  Texas,  Savannah,  North Atlantic,  Whitehall Terrace,  Paris,  Priory School,  Northern England,  Fighting Cock Inn,  Chesterfield,  Sussex,  Wessex,  Dartmoor,  King's Pyland

Times: 1890,  1888,  1894,  1869,  March 1883,  2 May 1883,  4 January 1885,  March 1869,  Reconstruction era,  January/February 1883,  January 1885