Title: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories]
First published: December 1, 2005
Description: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, first published on 14 October 1892. It contains the earliest short stories featuring the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, which had been published in twelve monthly issues of The Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June 1892. The stories are collected in the same sequence, which is not supported by any fictional chronology. The only characters common to all twelve are Holmes and Dr. Watson and all are related in first-person narrative from Watson's point of view.


Contains:
[Scandal in Bohemia](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14930611W/A_Scandal_in_Bohemia)
[Red-headed League](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14930336W/The_Red-Headed_League)
[Case of Identity](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14929939W/A_Case_of_Identity)
[Boscombe Valley Mystery](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL18495288W/The_Boscombe_Valley_Mystery)
[Five Orange Pips](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518120W/Five_Orange_Pips)
[Man with the Twisted Lip](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14930258W/The_Man_With_the_Twisted_Lip)
[Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518317W/Adventure_of_the_Blue_Carbuncle)
[Adventure of the Speckled Band](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262561W/Adventure_of_the_Speckled_Band)
[Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518318W/Adventure_of_the_Engineer's_Thumb)
[Adventure of the Noble Bachelor](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14929841W/Adventure_of_the_Noble_Bachelor)
[Adventure of the Beryl Coronet](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14929825W/Adventure_of_the_Beryl_Coronet)
[Adventure of the Copper Beeches](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518116W/Adventure_of_the_Copper_Beeches)


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Also contained in:

 - [Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518128W)
 - [Adventures of Sherlock Holmes](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20624138W)
 - [Celebrated Cases of Sherlock Holmes](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16076930W)
 - [Complete Sherlock Holmes](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL18188824W)
 - [Complete Sherlock Holmes: Volume I](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14929975W)
 - [Illustrated Sherlock Holmes](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518342W)
 - [Obras completas de Conan Doyle: II](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20787319W)
 - [Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262528W)
 - [Original Illustrated 'Strand' Sherlock Holmes](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262529W)
 - [Short Stories](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL18188661W)
 - [Works](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16173818W)
 - [Works](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14930383W)
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Places: Copper Beeches, Hampshire, Winchester, Streetham, Hyde Park, Serpentine, England, London, 221B Baker Street, Alpha Inn, British Museum, Covent Garden, Brixton, Upper Swandam Lane, River Thames, Horsham, West Sussex, United States, Florida, Pondicherry, India, Dundee, Georgia, Texas, Savannah, North Atlantic, Boscombe Valley, Herefordshire, Australia, Boscombe Pool, Hatherley Farm, Victoria, Ballarat, Leadenhall Street, Baker Street, Bohemia, Scandinavia, Warsaw, Church of St. Monica, Edgware Road, Charing Cross railway station
People: Sherlock Holmes, John H. Watson, Violet Hunter, Jephro Rucastle, Mr. Toller, Mrs. Toller, Alice Rucastle, Alexander Holder, Arthur Holder, Mary, George Burnwell, Hatty Doran, Lord St. Simon, Inspector G. Lestrade, Francis H. Moulton, Victor Hatherley, Lysander Stark, Baker Street Irregulars, Countess of Morcar, John Horner, Peterson, Henry Baker, Breckinridge, Mrs Oakshott, Catherine Cusack, James Ryder, Mrs. Oakshott, Kate Whitney, Isa Whitney, Neville St. Clair, Hugh Boone, John Openshaw, Openshaw, Inspector Lestrade, John Turner, Alice Turner, Charles McCarthy, James McCarthy, Patience Moran, Ballarat Gang, Mary Sutherland, Hosmer Angel, James Windibank, Hafez, Horace, Jabez Wilson, Vincent Spaulding, Duncan Ross, Police Inspector Jones, Mr. Merryweather, John Clay, Archie, Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond von Ormstein, Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meiningen, Irene Adler, Godfrey Norton, John H. Watson (Fictitious character)
Time periods: 1889, 1890s, 1888, 1869, March 1883, 2 May 1883, 4 January 1885, March 1869, Reconstruction era, January/February 1883, January 1885, 1870-1914