The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Overview

I am afraid, Watson, that I shall have to go,” said Holmes, as we sat down together to our breakfast one morning.
“Go! Where to?”
“To Dartmoor; to King’s Pyland.”
I was not surprised. Indeed, my only wonder was that he had not already been mixed up in this extraordinary case, which was the one topic of conversation through the length and breadth of England. For a whole day my companion had rambled about the room with his chin upon his chest and his brows knitted, charging and recharging his pipe with the strongest black tobacco, and absolutely deaf to any of my questions or remarks. Fresh editions of every paper had been sent up by our news agent, only to be glanced over and tossed down into a corner. Yet, silent as he was, I knew perfectly well what it was over which he was brooding. There was but one problem before the public which could challenge his powers of analysis, and that was the singular disappearance of the favourite for the Wessex Cup, and the tragic murder of its trainer. When, therefore, he suddenly announced his intention of setting out for the scene of the drama it was only what I had both expected and hoped for.
“I should be most happy to go down with you if I should not be in the way,” said I.
“My dear Watson, you would confer a great favour upon me by coming. And I think that your time will not be misspent, for there are points about the case which promise to make it an absolutely unique one. We have, I think, just time to catch our train at Paddington, and I will go further into the matter upon our journey. You would oblige me by bringing with you your very excellent field-glass.”
And so it happened that an hour or so later I found myself in the corner of a first-class carriage flying along en route for Exeter, while Sherlock Holmes, with his sharp, eager face framed in his ear-flapped travelling-cap, dipped rapidly into the bundle of fresh papers which he had procured at Paddington. We had left Reading far behind us before he thrust the last one of them under the seat, and offered me his cigar-case.
“We are going well,” said he, looking out the window and glancing at his watch. “Our rate at present is fifty-three and a half miles an hour.”
“I have not observed the quarter-mile posts,” said I.
“Nor have I. But the telegraph posts upon this line are sixty yards apart, and the calculation is a simple one. I presume that you have looked into this matter of the murder of John Straker and the disappearance of Silver Blaze?”

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ISBN-13:	9788835312956
Publisher:	eGriffo
Publication date:	10/16/2019
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About the Author

Arthur Conan Doyle

Jarlath Killeen studied at Trinity College Dublin, and University College Dublin, writing his doctoral thesis on Catholicism in the work of Oscar Wilde. He has been a lecturer in English literature at University College Dublin, the University of Keele, and Trinity College Dublin, where he took up a position in the School of English in 2006. He has published extensively on Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, and British and Irish Gothic literature and culture.

Darryl Jones is Professor of English at Trinity College Dublin, where he teaches nineteenth-century literature and popular fiction. He has written and edited many works, including the Oxford World's Classics editions of M. R. James's Collected Ghost Stories (2013), Arthur Conan Doyle's Gothic Tales (2018), H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds (2017), and The Island of Doctor Moreau (2017).

Date of Birth:

May 22, 1859

Date of Death:

July 7, 1930

Place of Birth:

Edinburgh, Scotland

Place of Death:

Crowborough, Sussex, England

Education:

Edinburgh University, B.M., 1881; M.D., 1885

Table of Contents

	Introduction	v
	The Adventure of Silver Blaze	1
	The Adventure of the Cardboard Box	24
	The Adventure of the Yellow Face	44
	The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk	61
	The Adventure of the "Gloria Scott"	78
	The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual	96
	The Adventure of the Reigate Squire	114
	The Adventure of the Crooked Man	133
	The Adventure of the Resident Patient	150
	The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter	166
	The Adventure of the Naval Treaty	183
	The Adventure of the Final Problem	214

Editorial Reviews

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes not only features the great detective's earliest known cases, it also introduces his older and smarter brother Mycroft and brings us face to face with that Napoleon of Crime, the chilling Professor Moriarty. This is, in short, the volume through which Conan Doyle dramatically enlarges the Holmesian universe—and just one reason why any serious Sherlockian will want a copy of these stories in this handsome Edinburgh edition, superbly introduced and crisply annotated by Jonathan Cranfield.

Michael Dirda

Sherlock Holmes is the very foundation stone of the edifice that is crime fiction.”

Times (London)

He is unique in simultaneously bringing down the curtain on an era and raising one on another, ushering in a genre of writing that... has never been surpassed. His own life, as footballer... eye surgeon, champion of injustice and investigator into the paranormal, is the stuff of legend. Personally, I would walk a mile in tight boots to read his letters to the milkman—Stephen Fry, The Arthur Conan Doyle Collection

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