The Crowborough Edition of the Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Crowborough Edition of the Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is a series of 24 volumes of works written by Arthur Conan Doyle published in USA by Doubleday, Doran & Co. in 1930.
The collection includes 20 novels, 161 short stories and 1 auto-biography written by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Note that the novel The Mystery of Cloomber was not included.
Stories
- Volume 01 : Preface by Arthur Conan Doyle + Rodney Stone
- Volume 02 : The Refugees
- Volume 03 : Tragedy of the Korosko. The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard
- Volume 04 : The Adventures of Gerard. The Last Galley, Other Stories
- Volume 05 : Uncle Bernac. The Great Shadow
- Volume 06 : A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus. The Doings of Raffles Haw
- Volume 07 : Sir Nigel
- Volume 08 : The White Company
- Volume 09 : Micah Clarke part. 1
- Volume 10 : Micah Clarke part. 2
- Volume 11 : The Firm of Girdlestone
- Volume 12 : The Stark Munro Letters. Danger! Other Stories
- Volume 13 : The Lost World. The Poison Belt
- Volume 14 : The Land of Mist. The Maracot Deep, Other Stories
- Volume 15 : A Study in Scarlet. The Valley of Fear
- Volume 16 : The Sign of Four. The Hound of the Baskervilles
- Volume 17 : The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- Volume 18 : Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
- Volume 19 : The Return of Sherlock Holmes
- Volume 20 : His Last Bow. The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes
- Volume 21 : Round the Red Lamp. The Green Flag, Other Stories
- Volume 22 : Round the Fire Stories
- Volume 23 : The Parasite. The Captain of the Pole-Star, Other Stories
- Volume 24 : Memories and Adventures
Photos
- Title pages
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Volume 01 -
Volume 05 -
Volume 20
Preface
Extract
My first long story was The Firm of Girdlestone, which stands for that crude and imitative stage through which an undeveloped writer may pass. It is a book which I could eliminate from my list without compunction. And yet I find that it appeals strongly to a certain type of reader who tunes in to my own mind at that point. It was mostly written before many of the 'Polestar' stories, though published much later.
I then, in 1887, wrote A Study in Scarlet, in which I first evolved the character of Sherlock Holmes with his faithful chronicler Watson. Having met with approbation, I two years later wrote another little book, The Sign of Four, about Holmes. Shortly afterwards, having started as an eye surgeon in London, I found much time upon my hands, and in my deserted consulting room I began that series of short stories about Holmes which ran eventually to such an unconscionable length, my only excuse being that the demand was always greater than the supply. This covers The Adventures, The Memoirs, The Return, and The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes, together with The Hound of the Baskervilles, His Last Bow, and The Valley of Fear. As most of these books have a preface of their own I need not enlarge. I might remark, however, that it had long struck me that a serial story in a magazine was a mistake, since if a single number was missed, the interest was gone. A series in which each was complete in itself seemed to me to be the ideal, and as far as I know I was a pioneer in this direction.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
Windlesham, Crowborough, Sussex.
December, 1929.
