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A racehorse vanishes, a trainer lies dead, and a dog’s silence gives Sherlock Holmes something to think about.
In Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Dr John Watson follows his friend through cases where ordinary details carry hidden weight. Silver Blaze begins with a missing horse and a death on Dartmoor. The Stockbroker’s Clerk turns a tempting job offer into a reason for suspicion.
Other puzzles reach into family rites, troubled homes, and a government office where a stolen treaty threatens Percy Phelps with ruin. The Gloria Scott opens a window onto Holmes’s first case, while Mycroft Holmes reveals another remarkable mind in the family. In The Final Problem, a dangerous rival draws near.
What you’ll discover
- Clues worth noticing Watch Holmes use close observation and reasoning to find meaning in apparently ordinary details.
- Watson at your side Follow a loyal friend who sees the evidence but often understands it later.
- Trouble behind closed doors Enter The Crooked Man, where a quarrel precedes a death in a locked room.
- The detective beyond Baker Street Explore Holmes’s early days and meet Mycroft, whose sharp powers come with little appetite for chasing.
- A rival to reckon with Feel the stakes rise as Holmes faces Professor James Moriarty, a gifted and dangerous opponent.
Who will love it
For readers who love puzzles solved by reasoning, detective short stories that fit into an evening, or a first look at Holmes and Watson's cases.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A silent dog solves Silver Blaze
- Holmes's own past comes to light
- Watson brings Holmes ordinary people in trouble
- Soldiers, doctors, brothers and a missing treaty
- Watson tells it, and method is the hero
- The Final Problem draws a dangerous enemy near
Who’s who
- Sherlock HolmesA consulting detective who solves cases by close observation and reasoning, and who is drawn into a duel with a dangerous rival.
- Dr John WatsonHolmes's friend and fellow lodger, a doctor who goes along on cases and writes them down for the public.
- Mycroft HolmesSherlock's older brother, who has sharper powers of observation but prefers his chair and club to any chase.
- Professor James MoriartyA gifted mathematician who, Holmes says, directs a large network of crime across London.
- Colonel RossThe owner of the missing racehorse Silver Blaze, a confident man who is slow to trust Holmes's methods.
- Percy PhelpsA Foreign Office clerk and Watson's old schoolfellow, who fears ruin after an important treaty vanishes from his office.
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Les Mémoires de Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle · 1893
A racehorse vanishes and a dog stays silent as Holmes searches for the clues others miss.
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of detective stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. The tales first appeared in The Strand Magazine in 1892 and 1893 and were gathered into a book in 1894.
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A silent dog solves Silver Blaze
The collection opens with Silver Blaze. A famous racehorse has vanished from a Dartmoor stable, and his trainer, John Straker, lies dead on the moor with a head wound. The horse's owner is Colonel Ross, who is sure of his facts and impatient with outsiders. Inspector Gregory has arrested a suspect, a young man who was in the area that night. Holmes travels there with Watson, only days before the race the horse was due to run.
Holmes does not rush about the moor in a frenzy. He walks the ground, asks small questions, and looks at things others walk past. He asks about the sheep in the stable and how they were doing. He asks what the stable dog did on the night of the crime. The answers seem trivial to Gregory.
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What is The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes about?
It is a collection of detective stories told by Dr Watson. Each case shows Holmes solving a puzzle by observation and reasoning, from a missing racehorse to a stolen treaty, ending with his struggle against Professor Moriarty.
Which stories are in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes?
The standard book has eleven stories: Silver Blaze, The Yellow Face, The Stockbroker's Clerk, The Gloria Scott, The Musgrave Ritual, The Reigate Squires, The Crooked Man, The Resident Patient, The Greek Interpreter, The Naval Treaty and The Final Problem.
When was The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes written?
The stories first appeared in The Strand Magazine in 1892 and 1893 and were published as a book in 1894. They are fiction, though set in real Victorian London and the English countryside.
The author
Arthur Conan Doyle
1859–1930 · British detective novelist
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician born in Edinburgh in 1859. He practised medicine in England and wrote novels, short stories and histories. His Sherlock Holmes stories began with A Study in Scarlet in 1887. He also wrote The Lost World in 1912. He died in Crowborough, England, in 1930.
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