THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES

'''The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes''' is a collection of twelve stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective and illustrated by Sidney Paget.
These are the first of the Sherlock Holmes short stories, originally published as single stories in the ''Strand Magazine'' from July 1891 to June 1892. The book was published in England on October 14 1892 by George Newnes Ltd and in a US Edition on October 15 by Harper. The initial combined print run was 14,500 copies.
The book was banned in the Soviet Union in 1929 for occultism, although the book shows few to no signs of such material. However, later the embargo was lifted.

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Adaptations

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Contents

The 12 stories in this collection are:

★ "A Scandal in Bohemia"

★ "The Red-Headed League"

★ "A Case of Identity"

★ "The Boscombe Valley Mystery"

★ "The Five Orange Pips"

★ "The Man with the Twisted Lip"

★ "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle"

★ "The Adventure of the Speckled Band"

★ "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb"

★ "The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor"

★ "The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet"

★ "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches"

Adaptations

''The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'' is also the title of the first sequence of a long-running television series about Arthur Conan Doyle's detective character, produced by Granada Television in England between 1984 and 1994. For more information on this series, see ''The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (TV series)''.
The 1939 film starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce was based on the stage play by William Gillette and was not a direct adaptation of the book.

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Texts in Wikisource

External Links

★ The Sherlock Holmes Museum 221b Baker Street, London England.