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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[File:p-f-collier-1904-conan-doyle-s-best-books-3vols-spines.jpg|thumb|250px|right|The 3 volumes<br />([[P. F. Collier & Son]], 1904)]]<br />
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''Conan Doyle's Best Books'' are 3 volumes collecting 4 novels and 20 short stories written by [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] published by [[P. F. Collier & Son]] in 1904.<br />
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The 3 volumes are illustrated by [[Frederic Dorr Steele]] that were used for the covers of [[Collier's]] magazines :<br />
* Volume 1 : 1 frontispiece and 4 illustrations<br />
* Volume 2 : 1 frontispiece and 4 illustrations<br />
* Volume 3 : 1 frontispiece only (photo)<br />
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== Stories ==<br />
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=== Volume 1 ===<br />
[[File:p-f-collier-1904-conan-doyle-s-best-books-vol1-front.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Frontispiece Volume 1. Illustration by [[Frederic Dorr Steele]].]]<br />
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* [[The Original of Sherlock Holmes]], by Dr. [[Harold Emery Jones|Harold E. Jones]]<br />
* [[A Study in Scarlet]] (4 illustrations by [[Frederic Dorr Steele]])<br />
* [[A Scandal in Bohemia]]<br />
* [[A Case of Identity]]<br />
* [[My Friend the Murderer]]<br />
* [[The Surgeon of Gaster Fell]]<br />
* [[Cyprian Overbeck Wells. A Literary Mosaic|Cyprian Overbeck Wells]]<br />
* [[The Ring of Thoth]]<br />
* [[John Huxford's Hiatus]]<br />
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<gallery mode="packed" heights="200px" caption="Illustrations of volume 1"><br />
File:p-f-collier-1904-conan-doyle-s-best-books-vol1-frontispiece-illu.jpg|Frontispiece. Not an illustration of "[[A Study in Scarlet]]". The illustration was originally used in [[Collier's]] for [[NORW|The Norwood Builder]] (31 october 1903).<br />
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File:p-f-collier-1904-conan-doyle-s-best-books-vol1-p18-illu.jpg|Page 18. Not an illustration of "[[A Study in Scarlet]]". The illustration was originally used in [[Collier's]] for [[EMPT|The Empty House]] (26 september 1903).<br />
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File:p-f-collier-1904-conan-doyle-s-best-books-vol1-p42-illu.jpg|Page 42. Not an illustration of "[[A Study in Scarlet]]". The illustration was originally used in [[Collier's]] for [[NORW|The Norwood Builder]] (31 october 1903).<br />
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File:p-f-collier-1904-conan-doyle-s-best-books-vol1-p66-illu.jpg|Page 66. Not an illustration of "[[A Study in Scarlet]]". The illustration was originally used in [[Collier's]] for [[NORW|The Norwood Builder]] (31 october 1903) and they added "Rache" on it.<br />
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File:p-f-collier-1904-conan-doyle-s-best-books-vol1-p114-illu.jpg|Page 114. Not an illustration of "[[A Study in Scarlet]]". The illustration was originally used in [[Collier's]] for [[PRIO|The Priory School]] (30 january 1904).<br />
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=== Volume 2 ===<br />
[[File:p-f-collier-1904-conan-doyle-s-best-books-vol2-front.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Frontispiece Volume 2. Illustration by [[Frederic Dorr Steele]].]]<br />
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* [[The Sign of Four]] (4 illustrations by [[Frederic Dorr Steele]])<br />
* [[The Mystery of Sasassa Valley]]<br />
* [[The American's Tale]]<br />
* [[Our Derby Sweepstakes]]<br />
* [[A Night Among the Nihilists]]<br />
* [[Bones, the April Fool of Harvey's Sluice|Bones]]<br />
* [[The Parson of Jackman's Gulch|Ellias B. Hopkins]]<br />
* [[John Barrington Cowles]]<br />
* [[Selecting a Ghost|The Secret of Goresthorpe Grange]]<br />
* [[The Captain of the "Pole-Star"]]<br />
* [[J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement]]<br />
* [[The Great Keinplatz Experiment]]<br />
* [[The Man from Archangel]]<br />
* [[That Little Square Box]]<br />
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<gallery mode="packed" heights="200px" caption="Illustrations of volume 2"><br />
File:p-f-collier-1904-conan-doyle-s-best-books-vol2-frontispiece-illu.jpg|Frontispiece. Not an illustration of "[[The Sign of Four]]". The illustration was originally used as the cover of [[Collier's]] for [[SOLI|The Solitary Cyclist]] (26 december 1903).<br />
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File:p-f-collier-1904-conan-doyle-s-best-books-vol2-p26-illu.jpg|Page 26. Not an illustration of "[[The Sign of Four]]". The illustration was originally used in [[Collier's]] for [[EMPT|The Empty House]] (26 september 1903).<br />
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File:p-f-collier-1904-conan-doyle-s-best-books-vol2-p74-illu.jpg|Page 74. Not an illustration of "[[The Sign of Four]]". The illustration was originally used in [[Collier's]] for [[SOLI|The Solitary Cyclist]] (26 december 1903).<br />
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File:p-f-collier-1904-conan-doyle-s-best-books-vol2-p98-illu.jpg|Page 98. Not an illustration of "[[The Sign of Four]]". The illustration was originally used in [[Collier's]] for [[SOLI|The Solitary Cyclist]] (26 december 1903).<br />
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File:p-f-collier-1904-conan-doyle-s-best-books-vol2-p146-illu.jpg|Page 146. Not an illustration of "[[The Sign of Four]]". The illustration was originally used in [[Collier's]] for [[PRIO|The Priory School]] (30 january 1904).<br />
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=== Volume 3 ===<br />
[[File:p-f-collier-1904-conan-doyle-s-best-books-vol3-front.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Frontispiece Volume 3. Photo of [[Arthur Conan Doyle]].]]<br />
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* [[The White Company]]<br />
* [[Beyond the City]]<br />
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== Cover ==<br />
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File:p-f-collier-1904-conan-doyle-s-best-books-cover.jpg|Cover<br />
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