The Final Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (var. 1) by A. Conan Doyle (Robert Hale, November 29, 2000, 0-7090-6738-0, £17.99, 251pp, hc, co) [Sherlock Holmes] [edited by Peter Haining]
Collection of ephemera about Sherlock Holmes edited and introduced by Peter Haining, slightly expanded from the 1981 (W.H. Allen) edition.
- 9 · Mr. Sherlock Holmes to His Readers · Arthur Conan Doyle · ex The Strand Magazine March 1927; part of article which was deleted when it was later used as the preface to The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes.
- 11 · Introduction · Peter Haining · in ; revised from the 1981 introduction and with the discussions of each item moved to the start of the item itself.
- 17 · Part 1
- 19 · The Truth About Sherlock Holmes [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · ar Collier’s December 29 1923
- _27 · The Adventure of the Two Collaborators [Sherlock Holmes] · J. M. Barrie · ss Collier’s December 29 1923
- 34 · The Mystery of Uncle Jeremy’s Household · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Boy’s Own Paper January 8 1887 (+6), as “Uncle Jeremy’s Household”; featured a detective and partner suggested as a prototype for Holmes & Watson.
- 76 · The Field Bazaar [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · vi The Student November 20 1896
- 80 · The Story of the Man with the Watches · Arthur Conan Doyle · ss The Strand Magazine July 1898; features an unnamed detective whom some take to be Sherlock Holmes.
- 97 · The Story of the Lost Special · Arthur Conan Doyle · ss The Strand Magazine August 1898; features an unnamed detective whom some take to be Sherlock Holmes.
- 115 · The Adventure of the Tall Man · gp (r)
- _116 · 1. The Plot [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · uw Conan Doyle: His Life and Art by Hesketh Pearson, Methuen, 1943, as “Plot for Sherlock Holmes Story”
- _118 · 2. The Completed Adventure [Sherlock Holmes] · Robert A. Cutter · ss Sherlockian Studies ed. Robert A. Cutter, The Baker Street Press, 1947, as “A Tall Adventure of Sherlock Holmes”; story by Cutter based on the outline by Doyle.
- 126 · The Painful Predicament of Sherlock Holmes [Sherlock Holmes] · William Gillette · pl Ben Abramson, 1955
given as by Doyle, but written by the actor, William Gillette, who first performed it in 1905.
- 138 · The Case of the Man Who Was Wanted [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle (error, actually by Arthur Whitaker) · nv Cosmopolitan August 1948
actually by Arthur Whitaker; he had sent it to Doyle and it was later found in Doyle’s papers.
- 164 · Some Personalia About Sherlock Holmes [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · ar The Strand Magazine December 1917
- 173 · The Case of the Inferior Sleuth: Two Poems on the Holmes-Dupin-Lecoq Controversy
- _174 · To Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · Arthur Guiterman · pm London Opinion December 14 1912
- _176 · To an Undiscerning Critic · Arthur Conan Doyle · pm London Opinion December 28 1912
- 177 · The Crown Diamond: An Evening with Sherlock Holmes [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · pl Baskerrette Press, 1958
text of a play first performed at the Bristol Hippodrome on 2 May 1921.
- 192 · How Watson Learned the Trick [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · vi The Book of the Queen’s Dolls’ House Library ed. E. V. Lucas, Methuen, 1924
- 199 · Part 2
- 199 · A Gaudy Death · Arthur Conan Doyle · ar Tit-Bits December 15 1900
- 206 · The Mystery of Sasassa Valley · Arthur Conan Doyle · ss Chambers’s Journal September 6 1879
- 218 · Sherlock Holmes on the Screen · Arthur Conan Doyle · ar Stoll’s Editorial News October 6 1921
speech given at the Trocadero Restaurant in London on September 28, 1921.
- 224 · My Favourite Sherlock Holmes Adventures · Arthur Conan Doyle · ms The Strand Magazine June 1927, as “How I Made My List”
- 229 · The Whole Art of Detection · Arthur Conan Doyle; edited by John Bennett Shaw · ms (r); collection of bried extracts from the Holmes canon illustrating Holmes’ views on the “art of detection”.
- 246 · The Unrecorded Cases of Sherlock Holmes · Peter Haining · bi ; list of cases mentioned in Sherlock Holmes stories that weren’t written by Doyle.
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