Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Andrew Glazzard is a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute. He is the author of Conrad’s Popular Fictions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and of numerous journal articles on late-Victorian and Edwardian fiction. He is an occasional contributor to the New Statesman.

Conan Doyle did not just create Sherlock Holmes. He reinvented and popularised the mini-series with self-contained episodes — think not just Inspector Morse or Dr Who but Friends and The Simpsons. Andrew Glazzard's expertly curated new edition of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle's first foray into this endlessly generative form, is a timely invitation for us to binge-read these brilliant stories once again.

• General Editor’s PrefaceAcknowledgementsA Chronology of the Life of Arthur Conan DoyleIntroductionThe Adventures of Sherlock HolmesAn Essay on the TextAppendix: Preface to the Author’s Edition of Sherlock Holmes StoriesApparatusExplanatory Notes