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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
You will enjoy this if you like clever puzzles, clues laid out fairly, and a famous friendship told with warmth. It suits readers who love Victorian London and foggy streets.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- Silver Blaze Sends Holmes to Dartmoor
- Two Letters Bring Strange Packages and Faces
- A Clerk Is Offered Too Much Money
- The Gloria Scott and Holmes's First Case
- A Family Ritual Hides a Sussex Secret
- Country Crimes and a Colonel's Quarrel
- Two Strange Visitors Seek Out Holmes
- A Naval Treaty Vanishes From a Locked Room
- Holmes Meets Moriarty and Flees to Switzerland
- How Watson Tells It and Why It Works
Who’s who
- Sherlock HolmesThe consulting detective who reads people and places from small clues, and who wants to rid London of its most dangerous criminal mind.
- Doctor WatsonHolmes's friend, a retired army surgeon, who joins his cases and writes them down for the public.
- Mycroft HolmesSherlock's older brother, a government accountant of great mental power who rarely leaves his club or his rooms.
- Professor MoriartyA former mathematics teacher who quietly directs crime across London and wants Holmes to stop pursuing him.
- Inspector LestradeA wiry, determined Scotland Yard detective who brings Holmes puzzling cases and follows his leads with bulldog persistence.
- Percy PhelpsWatson's old schoolfellow, a Foreign Office clerk who loses a vital treaty and begs Holmes to save his honor.
- Colonel RossThe owner of the missing racehorse Silver Blaze, an impatient sportsman who wants his horse and his trainer's killer found.
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Les Mémoires de Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle · 1893
A racehorse vanishes, a trainer lies dead, and Sherlock Holmes is bothered by a dog that does nothing at night.
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A racehorse vanishes from a Dartmoor stable, its trainer lies dead on the moor, and the watchdog did nothing at all. Why does Sherlock Holmes call that silence the most telling fact in the case?
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Silver Blaze Sends Holmes to Dartmoor
The collection opens at breakfast. Holmes tells Watson he must go to King's Pyland on Dartmoor, where the favorite for the Wessex Cup has vanished and its trainer, John Straker, has been found dead. On the train he sorts fact from the guesses of the newspapers.
The facts are strange. The stable boy on guard was drugged with opium in his supper. A stranger had come earlier, asking for inside news about the horses. The trainer lies dead in a hollow, with a silk cravat in his hand. The police suspect a London bookmaker named Fitzroy Simpson, and Inspector Gregory builds a tidy case against him. Holmes does not share their certainty.
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Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-memoirs-of-sherlock-holmes.
Doyle, A. C. (2026). The memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-memoirs-of-sherlock-holmes (Original work published 1893)
Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-memoirs-of-sherlock-holmes.
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What is The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes about?
It is a collection of twelve stories in which Doctor Watson records Sherlock Holmes's investigations, including his mistakes. They include a missing racehorse, a stolen naval treaty and a buried family secret, and end with Holmes facing his enemy Moriarty.
Who is Professor Moriarty?
Moriarty is a former mathematics professor who secretly organizes much of London's crime. He appears in The Final Problem, where Holmes describes him as a spider at the center of a web and a rival equal to himself.
Who is Mycroft Holmes?
Mycroft is Sherlock's older brother, introduced in The Greek Interpreter. He has even sharper powers of observation than Sherlock, but he prefers armchair reasoning and spends his days between his rooms, his office and the silent Diogenes Club.
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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