Manuscript Editions
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
That Ghastly Face
Edited by Ira B. Matetsky
The Baker Street Irregulars
2024
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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.
This Work of Storytelling: Speech to the Authors' Club, 1896
Edited by Cathy & Glen Miranker
Quartering Press
2024
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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.
Clutches of a Fiend
Edited by Steven T. Doyle
The Baker Street Irregulars
2023
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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.
The Haven Horror
Edited by Phillip G. Bergem
The Baker Street Irregulars
2022
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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.
A Masterpiece of Villainy
Edited by Ross E. Davies
The Baker Street Irregulars
2021
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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.
Regulation & Imagination: Legal & Literary Perspectives on Fox-hunting
Edited by Ross E. Davies
Green Bag Press
2021
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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.
The Staunton Tragedy
Edited by Michael F. Whelan
The Baker Street Irregulars
2020
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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.
The Lost World
Foreword by Jon L. Lellenberg
SP Books
2020
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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.
The Worst Man in London
Edited by Daniel Stashower & Constantine Rossakis
The Baker Street Irregulars
2019
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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.
Deadly Harpoon
Edited by Glen Miranker
The Baker Street Irregulars
2018
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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.
The Adventure of the Creeping Man
Edited by [editor to verify]
University of Winchester
2017
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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.
Trenches: The War Service of Sherlock Holmes
Edited by Robert Katz & Andrew Solberg
The Baker Street Irregulars
2017
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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.
The Adventure of the Abbey Grange
Edited by the SHSL
Sherlock Holmes Society of London
2016
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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.
Dancing to Death
Edited by Ray Betzner & David F. Morrill
The Baker Street Irregulars
2016
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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.
Out of Abyss
Edited by Andrew Solberg, Steven Rothman & Robert Katz
The Baker Street Irregulars
2014
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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.
Irregular Stain
Edited by Andrew Solberg & Robert Katz
The Baker Street Irregulars
2013
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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.
The Wrong Passage
Edited by Andrew Solberg & Robert Katz
The Baker Street Irregulars
2012
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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.
Bohemian Souls
Edited by Otto Penzler
The Baker Street Irregulars
2011
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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.
So Painful a Scandal
Edited by John Bergquist
The Baker Street Irregulars
2009
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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.
Mandate for Murder
Edited by Roy Pilot, Gianluca Salvatori & Enrico Solito
The Baker Street Irregulars
2006
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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.
The Napoleon Bust Business Again
Edited by William Hyder
The Baker Street Irregulars
2004
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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.
Murderland
Edited by Steven T. Doyle
The Baker Street Irregulars
2004
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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.
The Horror of the Heights
Edited by John Bergquist
Calabash Press
2004
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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.
The Adventure of Shoscombe Abbey
Edited by Vincent Delay
Bibliothèque Cantonale et Universitaire de Lausanne
2002
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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.
Angels of Darkness
Edited and introduced by Peter E. Blau
The Baker Street Irregulars
2001
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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.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, Chapter XI
Edited by Leslie S. Klinger
The Baker Street Irregulars
2001
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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).
A Regimental Scandal
Edited by Christopher Roden & Barbara Roden
The Arthur Conan Doyle Society
1995
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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.
The Adventure of the Lion's Mane
Edited by The Sherlock Holmes Society of London
Westminster Libraries
1992
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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.
The Adventure of the Dying Detective
Edited by The Arthur Conan Doyle Society
Westminster Libraries
1991
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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
The Adventure of the Priory School
Santa Teresa Press
1985
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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
