Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Jonathan Cranfield is Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University. He is the author of Twentieth-Century Victorian: Arthur Conan Doyle and the Strand Magazine, 1891-1930 (EUP, 2016), co-editor of Fran Phenomena: Sherlock Holmes (Intellect, 2013) and has published various peer-reviewed articles on late-Victorian periodical culture, popular fiction and early cinema.

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes not only features the great detective's earliest known cases, it also introduces his older and smarter brother Mycroft and brings us face to face with that Napoleon of Crime, the chilling Professor Moriarty. This is, in short, the volume through which Conan Doyle dramatically enlarges the Holmesian universe--and just one reason why any serious Sherlockian will want a copy of these stories in this handsome Edinburgh edition, superbly introduced and crisply annotated by Jonathan Cranfield.

• General Editor’s PrefaceAcknowledgementsChronology of the Life of Arthur Conan Doyle IntroductionThe Author Composition The Stories Reception The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Silver Blaze The Yellow Face The Stockbroker’s Clerk The ‘Gloria Scott’ The Musgrave Ritual The Reigate Squares The Crooked Man The Resident Patient The Greek Intepreter The Naval Treaty The Final Problem Appendices 1. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box 2. Extract from ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’ An Essay on the Text Apparatus Abbreviations used in the Apparatus Emendations and Variations Explanatory Notes