Sherlock Holmes

Selected Stories

Second Edition

Arthur Conan Doyle
Edited by Barry McCrea

Oxford World's Classics

• A new selection of a dozen of the best Sherlock Holmes stories, which sees Holmes at work from the beginning to the end of his career, together with a lively introduction and additional background material.
• This selection covers the full range of Holmes stories, including country house mysteries, city mysteries, and political tales, as well as the book-length The Sign of the Four.
• Introduction by Barry McCrea examines the reasons for the stories' enduring popularity, the 'science of deduction', the late Victorian and Edwardian context, and Holmes's rich afterlife on stage, page, and screen.
• Chronology and Explanatory Notes provide further historical context.
• Up-to-date Bibliography.
• Texts taken from the Oxford Sherlock Holmes collections.
• The only anthology of stories from across the Sherlock Holmes series, and the only edition with attractive additional features, including introduction and notes.

Sherlock Holmes

Selected Stories

Second Edition

Arthur Conan Doyle
Edited by Barry McCrea

Oxford World's Classics

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Sherlock Holmes

Selected Stories

Second Edition

Arthur Conan Doyle
Edited by Barry McCrea

Oxford World's Classics

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Sherlock Holmes

Selected Stories

Second Edition

Arthur Conan Doyle
Edited by Barry McCrea

Oxford World's Classics

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Sherlock Holmes

Selected Stories

Second Edition

Arthur Conan Doyle
Edited by Barry McCrea

Oxford World's Classics

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Sherlock Holmes' beginnings

Here at Oxford University Press we occasionally get the chance to discover a new and exciting piece of literary history. We're excited to share the newest short story addition to the Sherlock Holmes mysteries in Sherlock Holmes: Selected Stories. Never before published, our editorial team has acquired The Mystery of the Green Garden, now believed to be Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's first use of the Sherlock Holmes' character in his writing. Written during Doyle's time at Stonyhurst College before entering medical school, the short story displays an early, amateur style of writing not seen in his later published works.

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