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'''Manuscript Editions''' brings together books that reproduce, transcribe, or study manuscripts by [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]. These publications include facsimiles of original manuscript pages, editorial notes, introductions, essays, or contextual material explaining the history and significance of the manuscript.

This section is distinct from [[Annotated Editions]], which mainly covers annotated editions of already published texts.

See also the [[Manuscripts]] page for details on each manuscripts.

== Manuscript Editions ==

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'''That Ghastly Face'''<br>
''Edited by Ira B. Matetsky''<br>
''The Baker Street Irregulars''<br>
''2024''<br>
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A manuscript facsimile edition of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story ''The Blanched Soldier''. The book is accompanied by a careful transcription and useful annotations. The manuscript's history is followed by informative essays on a wide variety of topics by Andrew G. Fusco, Ira Brad Matetsky, Phillip Bergem, Randall Stock, Burt Wolder, Catherine Cooke, Bruce Harris, Andrew L. Solberg, Paul M. Chapman, Marilynne McKay, Mary Alcaro, Monica M. Schmidt, Jim Webb, Shana C. Carter, Mark Jones.<br>
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'''This Work of Storytelling: Speech to the Authors' Club, 1896'''<br>
''Edited by Cathy & Glen Miranker''<br>
''Quartering Press''<br>
''2024''<br>
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A manuscript facsimile edition of Conan Doyle's 1896 speech to the Authors' Club. The publication preserves a documentary witness to Conan Doyle's public literary life and offers material for the study of his views on authorship and the profession of writing.<br>
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'''Clutches of a Fiend'''<br>
''Edited by Steven T. Doyle''<br>
''The Baker Street Irregulars''<br>
''2023''<br>
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A manuscript facsimile edition of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story ''The Illustrious Client''. The book is accompanied by a careful transcription and useful annotations. Followed by informative essays on chronology, legal implications, sex and violence on screen, psychoanalysis, hypnosis, gaslighting... by Andrew G. Fusco, Steven T. Doyle, Bill Mason, Phillip Bergem, Randall Stock, Mike McSwiggin, Ira B. Matetsky, Pat Ward, Monica M. Schmidt, Leslie S. Klinger, Alan Rettig.<br>
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'''The Haven Horror'''<br>
''Edited by Phillip G. Bergem''<br>
''The Baker Street Irregulars''<br>
''2022''<br>
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A manuscript facsimile edition of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story ''The Retired Colourman''. The book is accompanied by a careful transcription and useful annotations. Followed by informative essays on illustrations, telephone, railways, artificial limbs... by Andrew G. Fusco, Randall Stock, Bonnie MacBird, Burt Wolder, Andrew Malec, Nicholas Utechin, Rob Nunn, Madeline Quiñones, Dan Andriacco, Steve Mason, Catherine Cooke, Paul Singleton, David Marcum, Marina Stajić, Doug Wrigglesworth, Charles Prepolec.<br>
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'''A Masterpiece of Villainy'''<br>
''Edited by Ross E. Davies''<br>
''The Baker Street Irregulars''<br>
''2021''<br>
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A manuscript facsimile edition of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story ''The Norwood Builder''. The book is accompanied by a careful transcription and useful annotations. Followed by informative essays on housekeepers, advertising, tramps, anthropology... by Andrew G. Fusco, Ross E. Davies, Phillip Bergem, Randall Stock, Ira B. Matetsky & Carolyn Vega, Michael W. Homer, Richard J. Sveum, Catherine Cooke, Susan Vizoskie, Anastasia Klimchynskya, Mary Alcaro, Stephen R. McAllister, Carlina de la Cova, Burt Wolder, Cattleya M. Concepcion & Jayantika Ganguly.<br>
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'''Regulation & Imagination: Legal & Literary Perspectives on Fox-hunting'''<br>
''Edited by Ross E. Davies''<br>
''Green Bag Press''<br>
''2021''<br>
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A manuscript facsimile edition devoted to Conan Doyle's short story ''The King of the Foxes''. The volume presents the manuscript as a documentary object and is useful for studying Conan Doyle's handwriting, revisions, and composition process. Including articles by Jennifer L. Behrens, Catherine Cooke, Laura Donnellan, Angela Fernandez, Douglas H. Ginsburg, Mark Jones, Anastasia Klimchynskaya, Allyson N. May, Ashley D. Polasek.<br>
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'''The Staunton Tragedy'''<br>
''Edited by Michael F. Whelan''<br>
''The Baker Street Irregulars''<br>
''2020''<br>
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A manuscript facsimile edition of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story ''The Missing Three-Quarter''. The book is accompanied by a careful transcription and useful annotations. Followed by informative essays on geographical locations, medicine, rugby... by Andrew G. Fusco, Phillip Bergem, Randall Stock, William Dorn, Michael McSwiggin, Lou Lewis, Donald B. Izban, John M. Linsenmeyer, Peter E. Blau, Hartley R. Nathan, Marino C. Alvarez, Michael Homer, Bruce R. Parker, Donald E. Novorsky.<br>
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'''The Lost World'''<br>
''Foreword by Jon L. Lellenberg''<br>
''SP Books''<br>
''2020''<br>
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A facsimile edition of the manuscript of ''The Lost World'', Conan Doyle's first Professor Challenger novel. The volume gives readers direct visual access to the manuscript and is especially useful for studying the composition of one of Conan Doyle's major works of scientific adventure fiction. With a foreword by Jon L. Lellenberg, but no more articles.<br>
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'''The Worst Man in London'''<br>
''Edited by Daniel Stashower & Constantine Rossakis''<br>
''The Baker Street Irregulars''<br>
''2019''<br>
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A manuscript facsimile edition of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story ''Charles Augustus Milverton''. The book is accompanied by a careful transcription and useful annotations. Followed by informative essays on adaptations, illustrations, legal issues, geographic identifications, psychological matters, criminals... by Andrew G. Fusco, Phillip Bergem, Randall Stock, Carla Coupe, Russell Merritt, Dana Cameron, Nicholas Utechin, Jonathan McCafferty, Monica Schmidt, Maria Fleischhack, Otto Penzler, Tom Ue, Bonnie MacBird.<br>
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'''Deadly Harpoon'''<br>
''Edited by Glen Miranker''<br>
''The Baker Street Irregulars''<br>
''2018''<br>
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A manuscript facsimile edition of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story ''The Adventure of Black Peter''. The book is accompanied by a careful transcription and useful annotations. Followed by informative essays on wide variety of subjects related to the story... by Andrew G. Fusco, Peter E. Blau, Phillip Bergem, Randall Stock, Jim O'Brien, Walter Jaffee, Nicholas Utechin, Ross E. Davies, Hartley R. Nathan & Clifford S. Goldfarb, Donny Zaldin, Bonnie MacBird, Barbara Rusch, Emily Miranker.<br>
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'''The Adventure of the Creeping Man'''<br>
''Edited by [editor to verify]''<br>
''University of Winchester''<br>
''2017''<br>
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A manuscript facsimile edition of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story ''The Adventure of the Creeping Man''. The publication allows comparison between the manuscript and the printed text, with particular interest for textual and Sherlockian study.<br>
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'''Trenches: The War Service of Sherlock Holmes'''<br>
''Edited by Robert Katz & Andrew Solberg''<br>
''The Baker Street Irregulars''<br>
''2017''<br>
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A manuscript facsimile edition of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story ''His Last Bow'', Conan Doyle's wartime Sherlock Holmes story. The edition is useful for studying the manuscript history of the story and Conan Doyle's treatment of espionage, patriotism, and the First World War.<br>
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'''The Adventure of the Abbey Grange'''<br>
''Edited by the SHSL''<br>
''Sherlock Holmes Society of London''<br>
''2016''<br>
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A manuscript facsimile edition of ''The Adventure of the Abbey Grange''. The publication gives access to the manuscript form of one of the Sherlock Holmes stories and supports textual study of Conan Doyle's revisions and narrative construction.<br>
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'''Dancing to Death'''<br>
''Edited by Ray Betzner & David F. Morrill''<br>
''The Baker Street Irregulars''<br>
''2016''<br>
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A manuscript facsimile edition of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story ''The Dancing Men''. The book is accompanied by a careful transcription and useful annotations. Followed by informative essays on the cipher's origin, Chicago, sound... by Andrew G. Fusco, Ray Betzner, Phillip Bergem, Randall Stock, Don Hobbs, Donny Zaldin, Dana Richards, David F. Morrill, Timothy Greer, Susan Rice, Marshall Berdan, Ashley D. Polasek.<br>
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'''Out of Abyss'''<br>
''Edited by Andrew Solberg, Steven Rothman & Robert Katz''<br>
''The Baker Street Irregulars''<br>
''2014''<br>
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A manuscript facsimile edition of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story ''The Empty House''. The book is accompanied by a careful transcription and useful annotations. Followed by informative essays on Inspector Lestrade, Mycroft Holmes, Watson and the Great Hiatus, Col. Sebastian Moran.... by Andrew G. Fusco, Phillip Bergem, Randall Stock, Catherine Cooke, Lyndsay Faye, Nicholas Utechin, Ray Betzner, Russell Merritt, Brent Morris, Steven Rothman, Lindsay D. Colwell, Chris Redmond, Peter Calamai, Maria Fleischhack.<br>
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'''Irregular Stain'''<br>
''Edited by Andrew Solberg & Robert Katz''<br>
''The Baker Street Irregulars''<br>
''2013''<br>
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A manuscript facsimile edition of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story ''The Second Stain''. The book is accompanied by a careful transcription and useful annotations. Followed by informative essays on topics related to the tale and its historical and political background... by Andrew G. Fusco, Phillip Bergem, Constantine Rossakis, Randall Stock, William Walsh, Rodney McCaslin, Paul Haagen, Steven Rothman, Elizabeth L. Rosenblatt, John Baesch.<br>
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'''The Wrong Passage'''<br>
''Edited by Andrew Solberg & Robert Katz''<br>
''The Baker Street Irregulars''<br>
''2012''<br>
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A manuscript facsimile edition of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story ''The Golden Pince-Nez''. The book is accompanied by a careful transcription and useful annotations. Followed by informative essays on history, geography, linguistic, religion, medicine... by Andrew G. Fusco, Phillip Bergem, Randall Stock, Peggy Perdue, Denny Dobry, Donald Pollock, William G. Wagner, Albert Silverstein, C. Paul Martin & Jacquelynn Morris, Richard J. Sveum, John Baesch, William Hyder.<br>
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'''Bohemian Souls'''<br>
''Edited by Otto Penzler''<br>
''The Baker Street Irregulars''<br>
''2011''<br>
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A manuscript facsimile edition of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story ''A Scandal in Bohemia''. The book is accompanied by a careful transcription and useful annotations. Followed by informative essays on Irene Adler ... by Andrew G. Fusco, Phillip Bergem, Randall Stock, John Linsenmeyer, Andrew J. Peck, Ray Betzner, Curtis Armstrong, Michael H. Kean, Julia Rosenblatt, Donald Pollock, Rikki Niehaus.<br>
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'''So Painful a Scandal'''<br>
''Edited by John Bergquist''<br>
''The Baker Street Irregulars''<br>
''2009''<br>
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A manuscript facsimile edition of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story ''The Three Students''. The book is accompanied by a careful transcription and useful annotations. Followed by informative essays on the land of the story, its premises, Cambridge, Oxford... by Andrew G. Fusco, Phillip Bergem, Randall Stock, Michael Eckman, Nicholas Utechin, Guy Marriott, Oliver Nicholson, Andrew Malec.<br>
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'''Mandate for Murder'''<br>
''Edited by Roy Pilot, Gianluca Salvatori & Enrico Solito''<br>
''The Baker Street Irregulars''<br>
''2006''<br>
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A manuscript facsimile edition of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story ''The Red Circle''. The book is accompanied by a careful transcription and useful annotations. Followed by informative essays on Italian influences, secret societies, Italian characters, Strand illustrators, Long Island Cave mystery... by Leslie S. Klinger, Jane & Philip Weller, Steven T. Doyle, Gianluca Salvatori, Enrico Solito, John J. Genova, Peter Blau & J. Bliss Austin.<br>
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'''The Napoleon Bust Business Again'''<br>
''Edited by William Hyder''<br>
''The Baker Street Irregulars''<br>
''2004''<br>
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A manuscript facsimile edition of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story ''The Six Napoleons''. The book is accompanied by a careful transcription and useful annotations. Followed by informative essays on the history of black pearls and the Borgias, Horace Harker / Victorian journalism, bust-manufacturing business... by Leslie S. Klinger, William Hyder, James H. Arva, Roy Pilot, Marshall S. Berdan, Peter Calamai.<br>
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'''Murderland'''<br>
''Edited by Steven T. Doyle''<br>
''The Baker Street Irregulars''<br>
''2004''<br>
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A manuscript facsimile edition of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story ''The Valley of Fear''. The book is accompanied by a careful transcription and useful annotations. Followed by informative essays on The Scowrers, Birlstone Manor, Miss Porlock... by Julia Carlson Rosenblatt, David Hammer, Cleveland Moffet, Pasquale Accardo, Peter Blau, Gary Lovisi, Catherine Cooke, Pat Ward, Jon L. Lellenberg.<br>
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'''The Horror of the Heights'''<br>
''Edited by John Bergquist''<br>
''Calabash Press''<br>
''2004''<br>
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A manuscript facsimile edition of Conan Doyle's aviation horror story ''The Horror of the Heights''. The volume is useful for studying Conan Doyle's manuscript practice in one of his notable non-Holmes tales of terror and scientific adventure. Including preface by John Bergquist and Michael Dirda, and articles by Phillip Bergem, Thomas R. Tietze, Julie McKuras.<br>
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'''The Adventure of Shoscombe Abbey'''<br>
''Edited by Vincent Delay''<br>
''Bibliothèque Cantonale et Universitaire de Lausanne''<br>
''2002''<br>
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A manuscript facsimile edition of ''The Adventure of Shoscombe Abbey'', better known in the canon as ''The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place''. The book includes an introduction in French by Vincent Delay and two essays, one in French and one in English, by Ernest Giddey. Limited edition of 200 copies.<br>
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'''Angels of Darkness'''<br>
''Edited and introduced by Peter E. Blau''<br>
''The Baker Street Irregulars''<br>
''2001''<br>
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A manuscript facsimile edition of ''Angels of Darkness'', Conan Doyle's early dramatic work connected with the world of ''A Study in Scarlet''. The edition is important for readers interested in Conan Doyle's experiments with drama and early Sherlockian material. With articles by Leslie S. Klinger, Peter E. Blau, Clifford S. Goldfarb, Christopher Roden, Don B. Wilmeth, Michael W. Homer.<br>
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'''The Hound of the Baskervilles, Chapter XI'''<br>
''Edited by Leslie S. Klinger''<br>
''The Baker Street Irregulars''<br>
''2001''<br>
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A manuscript facsimile edition of Chapter XI of ''The Hound of the Baskervilles''. This publication gives access to a manuscript fragment from Conan Doyle's most famous Sherlock Holmes novel and is useful for close textual study. Including 9 articles by Sherlockian experts (David Anderson, Don Richard Cox, James Kissane, Donald J. Watt, Willmer A. Hoer, Richard Lancelyn Green, Lloyd Rose, Donald A. Redmond, Michael Dirda).<br>
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'''A Regimental Scandal'''<br>
''Edited by Christopher Roden & Barbara Roden''<br>
''The Arthur Conan Doyle Society''<br>
''1995''<br>
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A manuscript facsimile edition of Conan Doyle's short story ''A Regimental Scandal''. The publication gives access to the manuscript form of a lesser-known work and is useful for studying Conan Doyle's early fiction and manuscript revisions. With a foreword by Dame Jean Conan Doyle and an introduction by Richard Lancelyn Green.<br>
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'''The Adventure of the Lion's Mane'''<br>
''Edited by The Sherlock Holmes Society of London''<br>
''Westminster Libraries''<br>
''1992''<br>
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A manuscript facsimile edition of ''The Adventure of the Lion's Mane'', one of the Sherlock Holmes stories narrated by Holmes himself. With an introduction by Colin Dexter and an Afterword by Richard Lancelyn Green. The book includes images of the handwritten pages, but not the transcribed text. 163x205 mm.<br>
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'''The Adventure of the Dying Detective'''<br>
''Edited by The Arthur Conan Doyle Society''<br>
''Westminster Libraries''<br>
''1991''<br>
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A manuscript facsimile edition of ''The Adventure of the Dying Detective''. With an introduction by Julian Symons and an Afterword by Owen Dudley Edwards. The book includes images of the handwritten pages, but not the transcribed text. 205x338 mm<br>
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'''The Adventure of the Priory School'''<br>
''Santa Teresa Press''<br>
''1985''<br>
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A manuscript facsimile edition of ''The Adventure of the Priory School''. As one of the earliest published manuscript facsimiles listed here, it provides a documentary view of Conan Doyle's working text (handwritten only, text not transcribed) for a major Sherlock Holmes story. Limited edition of 350 numbered copies, with 26 in a deluxe binding. Preface by Marvin P. Epstein and Introduction by Len Deighton<br>
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	'''Manuscript Editions''' brings together books that reproduce, transcribe, or study manuscripts by [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]. These publications include facsimiles of original manuscript pages, editorial notes, introductions, essays, or contextual material explaining the history and significance of the manuscript.		''Manuscript Editions'' brings together books that reproduce, transcribe, or study manuscripts by [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]. These publications include facsimiles of original manuscript pages, editorial notes, introductions, essays, or contextual material explaining the history and significance of the manuscript.

	This section is distinct from [[Annotated Editions]], which mainly covers annotated editions of already published texts.		This section is distinct from [[Annotated Editions]], which mainly covers annotated editions of already published texts.

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TCDE-Team at 18:37, 26 May 2026