The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories] by Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories] by Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
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A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [11 stories] by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
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The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
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The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers
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The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales by Chris Baldick, Anna Laetitia Aiken, Richard Cumberland, Anonymous, Juvenis., Isaac Crookenden, Petrus Borel, John Wadham, Edgar Allan Poe, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Bret Harte, George Washington Cable, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, Marcel Schwob, Charlotte Perkins Stetson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edith Nesbit, Ambrose Bierce, Ellen Glasgow, H.P. Lovecraft, William Faulkner, Clark Ashton Smith, Isak Dinesen, F.M. Mayor, Frederick Ignatius Cowles, Eudora Welty, Ray Russell, Alejandra Pizarnik, Jorge Luis Borges, Angela Carter, Joyce Carol Oates, Patrick McGrath, Isabel Allende
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band by Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Annotated Sherlock Holmes [1/2] by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Publishing History

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Subjects

Mystery and detective stories, Fiction, Private investigators, Children's fiction, locked-room mysteries, Detective and mystery stories, Anglo-Saxons, amorality, aristocracy, banks, Encyclopædia Britannica, pawnbrokers, police inspectors, red hair, English Detective and mystery stories, Juvenile audience, Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, cabinet cards, prima donnas, smoke bombs

Places

England, London, India, Baker Street, Surrey, 221B Baker Street, Calcutta, United States, Australia, Scandinavia, Bohemia, Church of St. Monica, Edgware Road, Warsaw, Charing Cross railway station, France, Alpha Inn, British Museum, Brixton, Covent Garden

People

Sherlock Holmes, John H. Watson, Archie, Duncan Ross, Jabez Wilson, John Clay, Mr. Merryweather, Police Inspector Jones, Vincent Spaulding, Grimesby Roylott

Times

1890, 1888, 1889, 2 May 1883, 4 January 1885, January 1885, January/February 1883, March 1869, March 1883, Reconstruction era

Prolific Authors

who have written the most books on this subject
Arthur Conan Doyle, 145 books
Edgar Allan Poe, 35 books
Антон Павлович Чехов, 25 books
Ray Bradbury, 22 books
Mark Twain, 18 books
Agatha Christie, 18 books
Charles Dickens, 15 books
Jack London, 15 books
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 13 books
Isaac Asimov, 13 books
John Steinbeck, 11 books
Margaret Atwood, 11 books
O. Henry, 10 books
Alice Walker, 10 books
Lewis Carroll, 10 books
Shirley Jackson, 10 books
William Shakespeare, 10 books
Ambrose Bierce, 9 books
William Faulkner, 9 books
Saki, 9 books
Carl Sandburg, 8 books
Jorge Luis Borges, 8 books
Rudolfo A. Anaya, 8 books
Toni Cade Bambara, 8 books
Arthur C. Clarke, 8 books