The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Cover of The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Author	Arthur Conan Doyle
Illustrator	Sydney Paget
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Series	Sherlock Holmes
Genre(s)	Detective fiction short stories
Publisher	George Newnes
Publication date	1894
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	viii, 279 pp
ISBN	NA
Preceded by	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Followed by	The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1894, by Arthur Conan Doyle.

Contents

The twelve stories (11 in American editions) of the Memoirs are:

• "The Adventure of Silver Blaze"
• "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box" (this story is in His Last Bow in American editions of the canon)
• "The Adventure of the Yellow Face"
• "The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk"
• "The Adventure of the Gloria Scott" (Holmes's first case, described to Watson)
• "The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual" (another early case, told by Holmes to Watson)
• "The Adventure of the Reigate Squire"
• "The Adventure of the Crooked Man"
• "The Adventure of the Resident Patient"
• "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter" (Mycroft appears for the first time)
• "The Adventure of the Naval Treaty"
• "The Adventure of the Final Problem" (Watson reports the death of Holmes)

The Cardboard Box

The first London edition of the Memoirs in 1894 did not include "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box," although all twelve stories had appeared in the Strand Magazine. The first US edition did include the story, but it was very quickly replaced with a revised edition that omitted it.

The reasoning behind the suppression is unclear. In Britain the story was apparently removed at Doyle's request as it included adultery and so was unsuitable for younger readers. This may have also been the cause for the rapid removal of the story from the US edition, and some sources^[specify] state that the publishers believed the story was too scandalous for the American public.

As a result, this story was not republished in the USA until many years later, when it was added to His Last Bow. Even today, most American editions of the canon include it with His Last Bow, while most British editions keep the story in its original place in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.

Additionally, with the removal of the story several of its opening pages, where Holmes emulates Dupin, were shoved into the beginning of "The Adventure of the Resident Patient", and some restored versions of "The Cardboard Box" continue this removal.

See also

Sherlock Holmes books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Novels: A Study in Scarlet · The Sign of the Four · The Hound of the Baskervilles · The Valley of Fear Short story collections: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes · The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes · The Return of Sherlock Holmes · His Last Bow · The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes Main characters: Irene Adler · Inspector Bradstreet · Tobias Gregson · Mycroft Holmes · Sherlock Holmes · Stanley Hopkins · Inspector Lestrade · Sebastian Moran · Professor Moriarty · Mary Morstan · Doctor Watson Related topics: Canon of Sherlock Holmes · 221B Baker Street · Sherlockiana

Wikisource links

• Silver Blaze
• The Cardboard Box
• The Yellow Face
• The Stock-broker's Clerk
• The Gloria Scott
• The Musgrave Ritual
• The Reigate Puzzle
• The Crooked Man
• The Resident Patient
• The Greek Interpreter
• The Naval Treaty
• The Final Problem

External links

• Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, available at Project Gutenberg.

• Sherlock Holmes Cases A compilation of some of the most famous Sherlock Holmes cases. Original stories adapted from the Gutenberg project
• Free Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes ebook by Adobe

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