The Basic Holmesian Library

This list has been created in 1983 (and revised in 1988) by the famous american sherlockian John Bennett Shaw in order to help the beginners build a solid knowledge about Sherlock Holmes:

List

The Canon

• 01. THE ANNOTATED SHERLOCK HOLMES (William S. Baring-Gould) 1967
• 02. THE BAKER STREET DOZEN (P. J. Doyle & E. W. McDiarmid) 1987

The Canon, Abridged

• 03. THE CASES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (William K. Kottmeyer) 1947

The Canon, Apocrypha

• 04. TALES OF TERROR AND MYSTERY (Arthur Conan Doyle) 1947
• 05. SHERLOCK HOLMES, THE PUBLISHED APOCRYPHA (Jack Tracy) 1980

Holmes, General Writings About

• 06. SHERLOCK HOLMES OF BAKER STREET (William S. Baring-Gould) 1962
• 07. SHERLOCK HOLMES AND DOCTOR WATSON (H. W. Bell) 1931
• 08. SHERLOCK HOLMES IN AMERICA (Bill Blackbeard) 1981
• 09. SHERLOCK HOLMES: Fact or Fiction (T. S. Blakeney) 1931
• 10. SHERLOCK HOLMES: Master Detective (Theodore C. Blegen & E. W. McDiarmid) 1952
• 11. MY DEAR HOLMES (Gavin Brend) 1951
• 12. Sherlockian Studies: Seven Pieces of Sherlockiana (Robert A. Cutter) 1917
• 13. A SHERLOCK HOLMES COMMENTARY (D. Martin Dakin) 1972
• 14. THE BEST OF THE PIPS: A Collection of the Writings About the Writings (The Five Orange Pips) 1955
• 15. STUDIES IN SHERLOCK HOLMES (Seven pamphlets) (O. F. Grazebrook) 1949-53
• 16. THE SHERLOCK HOLMES LETTERS (Richard Lancelyn Green) 1986
• 17. THE SHERLOCK HOLMES SCRAPBOOK (Peter Haining) 1973
• 18. THE LATE MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES AND OTHER LITERARY STUDIES (Trevor H. Hall) 1971
• 19. SHERLOCK HOLMES: TEN LITERARY STUDIES (Trevor H. Hall) 1969
• 20. THE GAME IS AFOOT (David L. Hammer) 1983
• 21. THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO SHERLOCK HOLMES (Michael Hardwick) 1987
• 22. THE SHERLOCK HOLMES COMPANION (Michael and Mollie Hardwick) 1962
• 23. BEYOND BAKER STREET: A Sherlockian Anthology (Michael Harrison) 1976
• 24. IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (Michael Harrison) 1971
• 25. I, SHERLOCK HOLMES (Michael Harrison) 1977
• 26. A STUDY IN SURMISE: The Making of Sherlock Holmes (Michael Harrison) 1984
• 27. THE WORLD OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (Michael Harrison) 1973
• 28. MURDER FOR PLEASURE: The Life and Times of the Detective Story (Howard Haycraft) 1941
• 29. THE SINCEREST FORM OF FLATTERY (Paul D. Herbert) 1983
• 30. BAKER STREET BY-WAYS (James E. Holroyd) 1959
• 31. SEVENTEEN STEPS TO 221B (James E. Holroyd) 1967
• 32. ELEMENTARY, MY DEAR WATSON (Irving Jaffee) 1965
• 33. THE ELEMENTARY METHODS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (Brad Keefauver) 1987
• 34. SHERLOCK HOLMES IN PORTRAIT AND PROFILE (Walter Klinefelter) 1963
• 35. ESSAYS IN SATIRE (Ronald A. Knox) 1928
• 36. "DEAR STARRETT—" / "DEAR BRIGGS—" (Jon L. Lellenbberg) 1989
• 37. DR. JOE BELL: Model for Sherlock Holmes (Ely M. Liebow) 1982
• 38. SHERLOCK HOLMES DETECTED (Ian McQueen) 1974
• 39. FOR THE SAKE OF THE TRUST: Sherlock Holmes and the Musgrave Ritual (Edward A. Merrill) 1982
• 40. ART IN THE BLOOD (James Montgomery) 1950
• 41. SHOTS FROM THE CANON (James Montgomery) 1953
• 42. SIDELIGHTS ON SHERLOCK (James Montgomery) 1951
• 43. THREE TRIFLING MONOGRAPHS (James Montgomery) 1952
• 44. CULTIVATING SHERLOCK HOLMES (The Norwegian Explorers) 1978
• 45. SHERLOCK HOLMES, ESQUIRE AND JOHN H. WATSON M.D., AN ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF THEIR AFFAIRS (Orlando Park) 1962
• 46. Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Sources (Donald A. Redmond) 1982
• 47. HOLMES AND WATSON: A Miscellany (S. C. Roberts) 1953
• 48. NAKED IS THE BEST DISGUISE (Sam Rosenberg) 1974
• 49. THE STANDARD DOYLE COMPANY: CHRISTOPHER MORLEY ON SHERLOCK HOLMES (Steven Rothman) 1990
• 50. UNPOPULAR OPINIONS (Dorothy L. Sayers) 1946
• 51. WEST BY ONE AND BY ONE: An Anthology of Irregular Writing (The Scowrers and Molly Maguires of San Francisco) 1965
• 52. ON THE SCENT WITH SHERLOCK HOLMES (Walter Shepherd) 1978
• 53. THE BAKER STREET READER: Cornerstone Writings about Sherlock Holmes (Philip A. Shreffler) 1984
• 54. SHEROCK HOLMES BY GAS-LAMP (Philip A. Shreffler) 1989
• 55. Simpson's Sherlockian Studies (A series of Eight Pamphlets) (A. Carson Simpson) 1953-60
• 56. BAKER STREET AND BEYOND (Edgar W. Smith) 1957
• 57. A BAKER STREET FOUR WHEELER: Sixteen Pieces of Sherlockiana (Edgar W. Smith) 1944
• 58. THE INCUNABULAR SHERLOCK HOLMES (Edgar W. Smith) 1958
• 59. INTRODUCING MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES (Edgar W. Smith) 1959
• 60. PROFILE BY GASLIGHT (Edgar W. Smith) 1944
• 61. LEAVES FROM THE COPPER BEECHES (The Sons of the Copper Beeches) 1959
• 62. MORE LEAVES FROM THE COPPER BEECHES (The Sons of the Copper Beeches) 1959
• 63. THE SECOND CAB (The Speckled Band) 1947
• 64. THE THIRD CAB (The Speckled Band) 1960
• 65. THE FOURTH CAB (The Speckled Band) 1976
• 66. THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (Vincent Starrett) 1933
• 67. 221B: Studies in Sherlock Holmes (Vincent Starrett) 1940
• 68. THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA SHERLOCKIANA (Jack Tracy) 1977
• 69. A DOCTOR ENJOYS SHERLOCK HOLMES (Edward J. Van Liere) 1959
• 70. THE ILLUSTRIOUS CLIENTS CASE-BOOK (J. N. Williamson & H. B. Williams) 1948
• 71. ILLUSTRIOUS CLIENT'S SECOND CASE-BOOK (J. N. Williamson) 1949
• 72. ILLUSTRIOUS CLIENT'S THIRD CASEBOOK (J. N. Williamson) 1953

The Agent

• 73. THE LIFE OF SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (John Dickson Carr) 1949
• 74. Memories and Adeventures (Arthur Conan Doyle) 1923-1924
• 75. THE QUEST FOR SHERLOCK HOLMES: A Biograhical Study of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Owen Dudley Edwards) 1983
• 76. THE ADVENTURES OF CONAN DOYLE (Charles Higham) 1976
• 77. THE QUEST FOR SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE: Thirteen Biographies in Search of a Life (Jon L. Lellenberg) 1987
• 78. CONAN DOYLE (Pierre Nordon) 1966
• 79. Conan Doyle: His Life and Art (Hesketh Pearson) 1943

Bibliography & Chronology

• 80. THE CHRONOLOGICAL HOLMES (William S. Baring-Gould) 1955
• 81. AN IRREGULAR CHRONOLOGY OF SHERLOCK HOLMES OF BAKER STREET (Jay Finley Christ) 1947
• 82. THE WORLD BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SHERLOCK HOLMES AND DR. WATSON (Ronald B. De Waal) 1974, 1980, 1994
• 83. THE INTERNATIONAL SHERLOCK HOLMES (Ronald B. De Waal) 1983
• 84. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF A. CONAN DOYLE (Richard Lancelyn Green & John Michael Gibson) 1983
• 85. THE TIN DISPATCH BOX: A Compendium of the Unpublished Cases of Sherlock Holmes (Christopher A. Redmond) 1965
• 86. A CHECKLIST OF THE ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE COLLECTION (Donald A. Redmond) 1977
• 87. BAKER STREET INVENTORY: A Sherlockian Bibliography (Edgar W. Smith) 1945
• 88. SHERLOCK HOLMES, THE WRITINGS OF JOHN H. WATSON, M.D. (Edgar W. Smith) 1962
• 89. BAKER STREET CHRONOLOGY (Ernest Bloomfield Zeisler) 1953

Theatre

• 90. SHERLOCK HOLMES: A Drama in Four Acts (Arthur Conan Doyle & William Gillette) 1922
• 91. FOUR SHERLOCK HOLMES PLAYS (Michael & Mollie Hardwick) 1964
• 92. SHERLOCK HOLMES ON THE SCREEN (Robert W. Pohle) 1977
• 93. THE PUBLIC LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (Michael Pointer) 1975
• 94. THE SHERLOCK HOLMES FILE (Michael Pointer) 1976
• 95. THE FILMS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (Chris Steinbrunner & Norman Michaels) 1978

Specialized Items

• 96. THE SHERLOCK HOLMES BOOK OF QUOTATIONS (Bruce R. Beaman) 1980
• 97. GOOD OLD INDEX (William D. Goodrich) 1987
• 98. DINING WITH SHERLOCK HOLMES (Julia Carlson Rosenblatt & Frederic H. Sonnenschmidt) 1976
• 99. SHERLOCK HOLMES BRIDGE DETECTIVE (Frank Thomas) 1973
• 100. BASIL OF BAKER STREET (Eve Titus) 1958
• 101. SHERLOCK HOLMES AND MUSIC (Guy Warrack) 1947
• 102. THE SHERLOCK HOLMES ATLAS (Julian Wolff) 1952

Parodies and Pastiches

• 103. THE CASE OF THE BAKER STREET IRREGULARS (Anthony Boucher) 1940
• 104. THE GIANT RAT OF SUMATRA (Richard L. Boyer) 1976
• 105. THE EXPLOITS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (John Dickson Carr & Adrian Conan Doyle) 1960
• 106. THE SCIENCE FICTIONAL SHERLOCK HOLMES (The Council of Four) 1960
• 107. IN RE: SHERLOCK HOLMES, THE ADVENTURES OF SOLAR PONS (August Derleth) 1945
• 108. THE MEMOIRS OF SOLAR PONS (August Derleth) 1951
• 109. THE RETURN OF SOLAR PONS (August Derleth) 1958
• 110. THE INCREDIBLE SCHLOCK HOLMES (Robert L. Fish) 1956
• 111. THE MEMOIRS SCHLOCK HOLMES (Robert L. Fish) 1974
• 112. THE RETURN OF MORIARTY (John Gardner) 1974
• 113. THE REVENGE OF MORIARTY (John Gardner) 1975
• 114. THE NEW ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (Martin Harry Greenberg & Carol-Lynn Russel Waugh) 1987
• 115. EXIT SHERLOCK HOLMES (Robert L. Hall) 1977
• 116. THE PRISONER OF THE DEVIL (Michael Hardwick) 1979
• 117. A TASTE FOR HONEY (H. F. Heard) 1941
• 118. THE INFERNAL DEVICE (Michael Kurland) 1979
• 119. ARSENE LUPIN VERSUS HERLOCK SHOLMES (Maurice Leblanc) 1910
• 120. COPPER BEECHES (Arthur H. Lewis) 1971
• 121. THE SEVEN-PER-CENT SOLUTION (Nicholas Meyer) 1974
• 122. THE WEST END HORROR (Nicholas Meyer) 1976
• 123. THE MISADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (Ellery Queen) 1944
• 124. A STUDY IN TERROR (Ellery Queen) 1966
• 125. The Unique Hamlet (Vincent Starrett) 1920

Periodicals

• 126. THE BAKER STREET GASOGENE (Edited by Peter A. Ruber, New York, 1961-62)
• 127. THE BAKER STREET JOURNAL (Baker Street Irregulars)
• 128. BAKER STREET MISCELLANEA
• 129. THE PONTINE DOSSIER (Note: ceased publication in january 1978)
• 130. THE SHERLOCK HOLMES JOURNAL (The Sherlock Holmes Society of London)

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