The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Reader

Description:

Sampling works by the creator of Holmes and Watson, this collection features Doyle's detective stories, horror tales, journalism, historical stories, and the complete text of his science-fiction novel The Poison Belt. Introduction -- Chronology -- From A Study in Scarlet, Part I (1887) -- [Scandal in Bohemia](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14930611W/A_Scandal_in_Bohemia) "The Los Amigos Fiasco" (1892) -- "The Case of Lady Sannox" (1893) -- "How the Brigadier Came to the Castle of Gloom" (1894) -- "How the Brigadier Slew the Brothers of Ajaccio" (1895) -- From The Stark Munro Letters (1895) -- "The King of the Foxes" (1898) -- "The Brazilian Cat" (1898) -- "The Brown Hand" (1899) -- [Adventure of the Empty House](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518119W/The_Adventure_of_the_Empty_House) [Dancing Men](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262417W/The_Dancing_Men) From The Crime of the Congo (1909) -- From The Lost World (1912) -- The Poison Belt (1913) -- "Danger!" (1914) -- From A Visit to Three Fronts (1916) -- From The Wanderings of a Spiritualist (1921) -- Bibliography.

subjects: cabinet cards,  Honourable Society of the Inner Temple,  prima donnas,  smoke bombs,  air guns,  anonymity,  attempted murder,  baritsu,  coal tar,  deformities,  locked-room mysteries,  soft-point bullets,  wax sculptures,  whist,  Americans,  crime bosses,  frequency analysis,  hanging,  murder-suicide,  penal labour,  stick figures,  substitution ciphers,  weddings,  Chronology,  Literature: Texts,  Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century,  Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -,  Mystery & Detective - Sherlock Holmes,  Fiction - General,  English,  Literary Criticism,  Literary,  Short Stories (single author),  Literary Criticism & Collections / General,  Regional, Ethnic, Genre, Specific Subject,  Criticism and interpretation,  English fiction, history and criticism, 19th century

People: Sherlock Holmes,  Arthur Conan Doyle,  Lady Sannox,  John H. Watson,  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,  Hilton Cubitt,  Elsie Patrick,  Abe Slaney

Places: Bohemia,  Congo,  Scandinavia,  Warsaw,  London,  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,  Baker Street,  Montpellier,  France,  Ridling Thorpe Manor,  Norfolk,  United States,  Chicago,  England

Times: 1888,  1894