The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of The Strand Magazine, in which they were first published, and won immense popularity for Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. The detective is at the height of his powers and the volume is full of famous cases, including The Red-Headed League', The Blue Carbuncle', and The Speckled Band'. Although Holmes gained a reputation for infallibility, Conan Doyle showed his own realism and feminism by having the great detective defeated by Irene Adler - the Woman - in the very first story, A Scandal in Bohemia'.

Catherine Wynne's introduction reappraises the stories by looking at Conan Doyle's medical background and its influence on the creation of the famous detective. This edition also features completely revised explanatory notes to reflect the most recent scholarship on Conan Doyle and Victorian Literature.

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Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 10/09/2025
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 7.72h x 5.24w x 0.66d
ISBN13: 9780198865759
ISBN10: 0198865759
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | General
- Fiction | Classics

About the Author
Arthur Conan Doyle, Catherine Wynne, Reader in Victorian and Early Twentieth-Century Literature and Visual Culture, University of Hull

Dr Catherine Wynne is Reader in English at the University of Hull. She has published extensively on Conan Doyle and on nineteenth-century culture. The Colonial Conan Doyle was published in 2002 and her most recent work on Doyle ('Neo-Holmesian Fiction') was published in The Cambridge Companion to Sherlock Holmes in 2019. Her publications on Doyle focus on the Gothic, Empire and colonialism and trauma. She has most recently published a biography of war artist and traveller, Lady Butler.