Arthur Conan Doyle Books in Order

These stories mix strange encounters, suspense, and adventure. In the title tale, a young ship’s doctor aboard an Arctic whaler watches his captain grow increasingly troubled while ice and mysterious sightings threaten the crew.

A London cabman recounts unusual encounters with his passengers, turning everyday journeys into stories of mystery and intrigue. His experiences reveal the surprises concealed within city life, mixing suspense with the humor of a driver's perspective.

James Upperton rents an isolated cottage on the Yorkshire moors, seeking peace for his work. A warning from a young woman and disturbing encounters with his strange neighbor turn that retreat into a place of fear.

Dr. Watson shares rooms with Sherlock Holmes and joins his investigation of a man found dead in an empty London house. A message written in blood points toward a mystery rooted far beyond Baker Street.

Retired General Heatherstone moves his family into remote Cloomber Hall in Scotland and lives in terror of an unexplained threat. A neighboring young man tries to understand the secrets behind his increasingly desperate precautions.

Young Micah Clarke leaves home to join the Duke of Monmouth’s rebellion against King James II. His adventures with an experienced soldier test his romantic ideas about warfare, religious conviction, and the price of loyalty.

John Girdlestone and his son Ezra hide the collapse of their respected trading firm while pursuing increasingly desperate financial schemes. A young heiress in John’s care becomes vulnerable as their search for money grows more dangerous.

Mary Morstan asks Holmes to investigate her father’s disappearance and the mysterious pearls sent to her each year. A strange invitation draws Holmes and Watson into a case involving Indian treasure, murder, and a secret agreement.

Mary Sutherland’s fiancé disappears on their wedding day, leaving her determined to remain faithful. Holmes examines the missing man’s peculiar habits and the family circumstances surrounding a romance that seems to have vanished without explanation.

A European king asks Holmes to recover a compromising photograph from Irene Adler before his approaching marriage. Holmes devises a plan to find it, but his investigation brings him up against a woman with formidable judgment.

A man is found murdered near a country pool, and his son seems the obvious suspect after their public quarrel. Holmes investigates the evidence while a young woman insists that the accused could not be guilty.

John Openshaw seeks Holmes’s help after threatening letters containing orange pips precede deaths in his family. Now another envelope has arrived, forcing Holmes to trace a warning whose meaning reaches into the family’s American past.

Neville St. Clair disappears after his wife sees him at the window of a London opium den. Bloodstains and a disfigured beggar complicate the investigation as Holmes tries to discover what happened to the missing businessman.

Pawnbroker Jabez Wilson earns easy money copying an encyclopedia for an organization open only to redheaded men. When the job abruptly ends, Holmes investigates why someone wanted Wilson away from his shop for hours every day.

Alleyne Edricson leaves the sheltered life of an abbey and joins Sir Nigel Loring’s company during the Hundred Years’ War. Travels through France and Spain introduce him to comradeship, chivalry, and the realities of soldiering.

A banker entrusted with a priceless jeweled coronet discovers it damaged and catches his son holding it. Holmes investigates the missing stones, hoping to untangle the family’s conflicting stories before suspicion destroys an innocent person’s reputation.

Three neighboring suburban households find their assumptions unsettled by an outspoken woman with progressive ideas. As relationships develop and financial trouble strikes, their comfortable routines give way to arguments about independence, responsibility, and the changing roles of women.

Oxford medical student Abercrombie Smith becomes concerned about a neighbor obsessed with Egyptian artifacts and a mummy. Strange noises and violent attacks suggest that the neighbor’s studies may have brought something dangerous into their college rooms.

Holmes and Watson travel to Dartmoor after a celebrated racehorse disappears and its trainer is found dead. With an important race approaching, Holmes examines the stable’s curious evidence and questions the apparently convincing case against a suspect.

A stolen jewel unexpectedly turns up inside a Christmas goose, drawing Holmes into what began as a puzzle about an abandoned hat. Following the bird’s journey through London may reveal the truth behind a hotel theft.

Governess Violet Hunter accepts a well-paid position with strange conditions, including cutting her hair and wearing a particular dress. When forbidden rooms and disturbing behavior alarm her, she calls Holmes to investigate the country house.

A hydraulic engineer arrives at Watson’s surgery with a severed thumb and an extraordinary account of a secret nighttime commission. Holmes investigates the isolated house and suspicious machinery behind a job that nearly cost the engineer his life.

Lord St. Simon asks Holmes to find his American bride, who vanished during their wedding reception. Her sudden change of mood and discarded wedding clothes leave the police fearing tragedy, while Holmes studies the ceremony’s overlooked details.

Helen Stoner fears she will suffer the same unexplained death as her twin sister after moving into the dead woman’s bedroom. Holmes and Watson investigate strange nighttime sounds and the threatening behavior of her violent stepfather.

Twelve cases follow Holmes and Watson through stolen jewels, vanished people, suspicious employment offers, and dangerous country houses. Holmes’s close attention to everyday details exposes the secrets hidden beneath clients’ often misleading accounts of their troubles.

Mysterious millionaire Raffles Haw settles in a Staffordshire town and uses his seemingly limitless fortune to help its residents. His friendship with an impoverished family raises questions about whether generosity can change lives without encouraging greed and dependence.

On the Anglo-Scottish border, Jack Colder and his friend Jim become rivals for a young woman’s affection. A mysterious stranger disrupts their lives as Napoleon’s wars draw their quiet community toward military service and battlefield danger.

These mystery and adventure stories explore criminals, unsettling encounters, and unexpected dangers. In the title story, a prison doctor listens to a convicted murderer’s account of his past, discovering a disturbing gulf between confession and remorse.

Susan Cushing receives a cardboard box containing two severed ears packed in salt. While Lestrade suspects a cruel prank, Holmes studies the parcel and its recipient’s family connections for evidence of a much more serious crime.

Colonel Barclay dies after a furious argument with his wife, who becomes the chief suspect. Holmes and Watson investigate the couple’s apparently happy marriage and a strange visitor whose appearance may connect the death to an older secret.

These Holmes stories range from a puzzling family ritual to a stolen diplomatic document. In the title tale, Professor Moriarty threatens Holmes’s effort to dismantle his criminal network, forcing the detective and Watson to leave England under pursuit.

Holmes recounts an early case from his student days, when a visit to a friend’s family home exposed troubling secrets. An unwelcome sailor and a puzzling message threaten the peace of a seemingly respectable Norfolk household.

A Greek interpreter tells Holmes and his brother Mycroft about being forced to question a captive man in a mysterious house. With the interpreter unable to identify the location, they must unravel the danger before it is too late.

Holmes recalls an early investigation for Reginald Musgrave after two servants disappear from his ancestral home. An old family ritual, dismissed as meaningless ceremony, may hold the key to understanding what the missing servants were seeking.

Foreign Office employee Percy Phelps loses a confidential naval treaty while copying it, jeopardizing his career and government secrets. Holmes and Watson investigate the baffling theft as Phelps recovers from an illness brought on by the disaster.

Watson takes an exhausted Holmes to Surrey for rest, but a burglary and a coachman’s murder interrupt the holiday. A torn scrap of handwriting draws Holmes into an investigation involving neighboring estates and conflicting accounts.

Dr. Trevelyan asks Holmes to help his wealthy resident patient, who becomes terrified after strangers visit the practice. Unexplained footprints suggest an intrusion, but the frightened man’s refusal to explain himself leaves Holmes struggling to offer protection.

Clerk Hall Pycroft is offered a better-paid job just before starting work at a London stockbroker’s office. The new firm’s sparse premises and peculiar instructions prompt him to ask Holmes whether the opportunity conceals a dangerous deception.

Grant Munro worries about his wife’s unexplained requests for money and secret visits to a neighboring cottage. A strange face at its window leads him to Holmes, whose investigation must untangle suspicion from a hidden family history.

In 1685, Huguenot soldier Amory de Catinat faces growing religious persecution at the court of Louis XIV. Forced to flee France with his family, he journeys toward North America, where new dangers complicate their search for safety.

These stories explore the work of doctors and the lives of their patients, mixing everyday medical challenges with darker surprises. Illness, professional ambition, difficult decisions, and strange encounters reveal the human pressures behind Victorian medical practice.

Watson recounts another collection of Sherlock Holmes investigations, from a missing racehorse to an ancient family ritual. The detective's powers face increasingly dangerous challenges, including the formidable criminal intelligence of Professor Moriarty.

Skeptical physiologist Austin Gilroy agrees to investigate Miss Penclosa's supposed psychic abilities. When her hypnotic influence begins intruding on his thoughts and relationship with his fiancée, a scientific experiment becomes a frightening struggle for personal freedom.

Through letters to a friend, young doctor Stark Munro describes his efforts to establish a medical practice and decide what he believes. His association with the brilliant, unpredictable Cullingworth complicates an already precarious professional beginning.

Young Rodney Stone leaves Sussex for London under the guidance of his fashionable uncle, entering a world of aristocratic society and bare-knuckle boxing. His friend Jim Harrison's involvement in a high-stakes fight draws them toward danger.

French cavalry officer Etienne Gerard recounts daring exploits amid the Napoleonic wars, including dangerous missions, escapes and encounters with enemies. His enormous confidence and devotion to military honor give these adventurous tales their distinctive comic edge.

At breakfast in Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes studies Watson and an envelope, turning an apparently ordinary morning into a demonstration of deduction. This brief sketch connects their familiar conversation with an appeal supporting a university fundraising bazaar.

Louis de Laval returns to France after his royalist family's exile, responding to an invitation from an uncle aligned with Napoleon. Family interests and political loyalties entangle the young visitor in dangerous intrigues around the emperor's camp.

These poems turn to battle, adventure, sport and life at sea, placing courage and duty beside the risks of action. Doyle uses narrative verse to follow people caught in demanding circumstances, where resolve and consequence shape their choices.

A party of European tourists traveling along the Nile falls into the hands of armed Dervish captors. Forced into a perilous desert journey, the travelers confront threats to their lives alongside disagreements over faith, duty and empire.

Frank Crosse and Maude Selby move from courtship into married life, discovering the pleasures and strains of building a household together. Domestic adjustments and financial worries test their affection in this intimate portrait of an ordinary couple.

Conan Doyle chronicles the origins and military campaigns of the Second Boer War, examining battles, sieges and British operations in South Africa. His account combines descriptions of the fighting with his interpretation of the conflict's political background.

These stories explore courage, loyalty and rivalry through soldiers, pirates and sporting contests. The title tale follows an Irish soldier serving in the British army, while other pieces move between dangerous sea adventures and the boxing ring.

After Sir Charles Baskerville's mysterious death, Sherlock Holmes investigates a family legend about a murderous supernatural hound. Watson accompanies the new heir to Dartmoor, where threatening messages, suspicious neighbors and the desolate moor deepen the danger.

Conan Doyle defends Britain's involvement and conduct in the South African war, addressing criticism of military policy and treatment of civilians. This polemical account presents his arguments about the conflict's causes, concentration camps and wartime accusations.

Hilton Cubitt brings Sherlock Holmes puzzling drawings of dancing stick figures that terrify his wife, Elsie. As further messages appear, Holmes must decipher their hidden meaning before the threatening connection to her past turns into violence.

The unexplained shooting of Ronald Adair in a locked room draws Watson into a baffling London mystery. Sherlock Holmes's unexpected reappearance changes the investigation, bringing an old danger into focus and requiring a carefully prepared confrontation.

Young solicitor John Hector McFarlane is accused of murdering a builder who has unexpectedly named him as his heir. With a fire and incriminating evidence supporting the police case, Sherlock Holmes searches for inconsistencies in the apparent crime.

Brigadier Etienne Gerard recounts further adventures as a French cavalry officer during the Napoleonic wars. Secret assignments, captivity and encounters with rival soldiers challenge his courage, while his extravagant self-regard turns military exploits into comic storytelling.

A brutal retired sea captain is found dead in his cabin, pinned by a harpoon. Inspector Stanley Hopkins seeks Sherlock Holmes's help, and the detective examines maritime clues to identify someone capable of carrying out the extraordinary killing.

Sherlock Holmes takes on Charles Augustus Milverton, a blackmailer whose possession of compromising letters threatens a client's marriage. When negotiation fails, Holmes and Watson contemplate an unlawful intervention against a man protected by his victims' fear of exposure.

Holmes investigates the killing of Sir Eustace Brackenstall after his wife describes a violent attack by burglars. Details at the country house trouble the detective, whose examination of the physical evidence challenges an apparently straightforward account.

A young secretary is murdered in a secluded house belonging to an elderly professor, leaving behind a pair of golden spectacles. Sherlock Holmes studies this unusual clue to reconstruct an intruder's identity and movements through the household.

Cambridge rugby player Godfrey Staunton disappears shortly before an important match, and his worried teammate asks Sherlock Holmes to find him. A mysterious visitor, hurried communications and an uncooperative doctor complicate the search for the missing athlete.

A duke's young son disappears from an exclusive boarding school, along with a teacher and his bicycle. Sherlock Holmes follows traces across the surrounding countryside, investigating a disappearance whose implications extend into a powerful family's private affairs.

A sensitive political letter disappears from a government minister's home, threatening an international crisis if it reaches hostile hands. Sherlock Holmes must recover it discreetly, navigating official secrecy and suspicious events connected to the missing document.

Someone is smashing plaster busts of Napoleon across London, prompting the police to suspect an eccentric obsession. When the attacks become linked to murder, Sherlock Holmes searches for the connection between the particular busts being destroyed.

Music teacher Violet Smith is repeatedly followed by a mysterious cyclist on a lonely country road. Sherlock Holmes investigates her unusual employment arrangement and the unsettling men around her, seeking the purpose behind the stranger's persistent attention.

A university tutor discovers that someone has tampered with confidential examination proofs, placing an imminent scholarship test in jeopardy. Sherlock Holmes investigates three students with nearby rooms, relying on small physical clues to resolve the matter discreetly.

Sherlock Holmes rejoins Watson for a collection of investigations involving coded messages, missing people, stolen documents and puzzling murders. Beginning with his unexpected return, these stories bring the detective back into London's criminal intrigues and private secrets.

Young squire Nigel Loring pursues honor and advancement in the early years of the Hundred Years' War. Service under Sir John Chandos leads him into military adventures, where chivalric ideals encounter the hazards of fighting in France.

Conan Doyle invites readers into his library, reflecting on the books and writers that have shaped his imagination. Moving among fiction, poetry and history, he considers reading as a source of companionship, pleasure and intellectual discovery.

This collection gathers suspenseful stories intended for reading beside a fire, moving through crime, strange occurrences and physical peril. Mysterious disappearances, disturbing objects and dangerous encounters challenge characters who find familiar circumstances taking an unexpectedly sinister turn.

Secret submarine plans vanish, and a young government employee is found dead beside a railway line with only part of the documents. Mycroft Holmes enlists his brother to investigate a case with urgent implications for Britain's defense.

John Scott Eccles wakes after a country-house visit to discover that his host and the servants have vanished. When the host is found murdered, Sherlock Holmes investigates the strange invitation alongside an unusually capable local police inspector.

Conan Doyle assembles testimony and documentary evidence to condemn exploitation and violence in the Congo under Leopold II's rule. Examining forced labor and the rubber trade, he urges public attention and international action against the abuses he describes.

Holmes's holiday in Cornwall is interrupted when a woman is found dead and her two brothers lose their sanity after an evening together. The apparently inexplicable tragedy draws Holmes and Watson into a disturbing investigation of terror and death.

Thirty-three poems range from narrative pieces to reflections on thought, experience and the passing world. Grouped into narrative, philosophical and miscellaneous sections, they show Doyle turning from prose fiction to questions and observations expressed through verse.

A landlady asks Sherlock Holmes to investigate a secretive lodger who stays hidden and communicates only through written requests. Strange behavior and signals from a nearby building lead Holmes toward a more dangerous mystery than household eccentricity.

When Lady Frances Carfax stops writing to a trusted acquaintance, Sherlock Holmes sends Watson to trace her travels across Europe. Her disappearance, valuable jewelry and encounters with unfamiliar companions raise fears that she has fallen into dangerous hands.

Conan Doyle combines historical stories with tales of more contemporary life, exploring conflict, danger and human behavior across different periods. The title story evokes ancient Carthage, while the wider collection moves between distant civilizations and modern situations.

Conan Doyle examines Oscar Slater's conviction for a Glasgow murder, challenging the evidence and the handling of the investigation. He scrutinizes witness identification and circumstances surrounding the prosecution, presenting a detailed argument that the case demands reconsideration.

Professor Challenger leads an expedition to a remote South American plateau where prehistoric creatures may still survive. Joined by a skeptical scientist, an adventurer and a young journalist, he seeks proof amid an increasingly dangerous and unfamiliar environment.

Summoned to Baker Street, Watson finds Sherlock Holmes apparently dying of a rare tropical illness. Holmes refuses ordinary medical help and insists on seeing a particular expert, leaving Watson struggling to understand his friend's alarming condition and unusual demands.

Professor Challenger warns that Earth is entering a poisonous region of space and summons his former expedition companions with oxygen supplies. Sheltering together, they watch civilization fall silent and confront the possibility that humanity's ordinary existence is ending.

A coded warning reaches Sherlock Holmes just before news arrives of a killing at a moated country house. Investigating the death draws Holmes and Watson toward a secretive American past and dangers linked to the influence of Professor Moriarty.

Arthur Conan Doyle visits British, Italian and French positions during the First World War. His account records the soldiers, landscapes and daily conditions he encounters, offering a contemporary observer's view of life along three allied fronts.

This collection follows Sherlock Holmes and Watson through cases involving sinister packages, stolen secrets, missing people, and an apparently fatal illness. Its concluding adventure moves into espionage, placing the detective's skills against German intelligence as war approaches Europe.

Arthur Conan Doyle describes his movement from skepticism toward belief in spiritualism and communication with the dead. Personal experiences and psychical research support his argument that life continues after death, inviting readers to reconsider assumptions about science and religion.

These short stories explore unusual dangers, including a fictional submarine campaign against Britain's food supplies. Military speculation, adventure, and unsettling discoveries extend beyond familiar detective work, showing people confronting threats that challenge their confidence in safety and modern progress.

This collection gathers Conan Doyle's stories of strange encounters and the unseen, including a professor's experiment in separating spirit from body. Scientific curiosity, uncanny events, and unexpected complications bring together comic misadventure and more disturbing challenges to ordinary explanations.

Conan Doyle argues that spiritualism should reshape Christian thought and humanity's understanding of life after death. Drawing on claimed psychic experiences, he challenges established doctrine and explores how religious reform might provide comfort and moral direction after widespread suffering.

Adventure stories set in Egypt, London, and northern Scotland sit alongside tales of surgeons and country doctors. The collection explores dangerous escapades, professional dilemmas, and personal relationships, drawing on the medical world's mixture of practical work, comedy, and tragedy.

Conan Doyle chronicles the British Army's operations in France and Flanders during 1915, continuing his account of the Western Front. Detailed descriptions of campaigns and fighting examine a year of military stalemate and the pressures facing troops and commanders.

A stolen Crown diamond brings Sherlock Holmes into conflict with Count Sylvius and his accomplice. With a would-be assassin watching Baker Street, Holmes devises an unusual confrontation designed to recover the jewel without surrendering control of the encounter.

Conan Doyle examines the Cottingley fairy photographs and the testimony offered in support of them. His account presents his belief in their authenticity, exploring the controversial claim that photographs and eyewitness experiences could establish the existence of fairies.

Conan Doyle recounts a journey from Britain to Australia to promote spiritualism. Travel observations, public encounters, and reflections on séances reveal his efforts to persuade audiences that communication with the dead could offer comfort to those facing loss.

Pirates, ships, and hazardous seas shape this collection of maritime adventures. Encounters with ruthless raiders and the uncertainties of life afloat test sailors' courage and judgment, with deception and danger repeatedly threatening those who seek passage across open water.

Wealthy Neil Gibson asks Holmes to clear a governess accused of murdering his wife at Thor Bridge. A note and a discovered revolver appear to condemn her, but inconsistencies in the evidence push Holmes to question the apparent sequence of events.

Professor Presbury's secretary consults Holmes about his employer's increasingly bizarre behavior after an unexplained journey abroad. Secret correspondence, a mysterious box, and disturbing nocturnal movements unsettle the household, leaving Holmes to investigate what has changed the respected older man.