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The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories

Otto Penzler

First published 2015
Series Big Book Series
Publisher Pantheon Books
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Cover art Thomas Gianni
Pages xxii+789
Price $40.00
ISBN 9781101870891

  • Stated "First Edition"
  • First printing per number line
  • Cover artist credit per copyright page and rear inside dust jacket flap
  • Date per "10/2015" on rear inside dust jacket flap. Copyright page just has year.
  • Canadian price $47.00
  • Each story is preceded by a page introduction to the author and story. The title and author credit are on both the introduction page and on the first page of the story. The book's table of contents uses the page numbers of the introduction. The page numbers below are the first page of the story.
  • Publication contains predominantly non-genre stories. Only genre stories, stories by authors above the threshold, or stories already present in the database are included below. The additional stories include:
    • p12, Vincent Starrett, 'The Unique "Hamlet": Being an Unrecorded Adventure of Mr. Sherlock Holmes'
    • p30, Arthur Whitaker, 'The Case of the Man Who Was Wanted'
    • p48, O. Henry, 'The Sleuths'
    • p53, A. B. Cox, 'Holmes and the Dasher'
    • p56, Stephen Leacock, 'An Irreducible Detective Story'
    • p107, J. C. Masterman, 'The Case of the Gifted Amateur'
    • p119, Edmund Pearson, 'Sherlock Holmes and the Drood Mystery'
    • p132, Hugh Kingsmill, 'The Ruby of Khitmandu'
    • p149, H. F. Heard, 'The Enchanted Garden'
    • p166, Ring W. Lardner, 'A Study in Handwriting'
    • p197, Robert Barr, 'Detective Stories Gone Wrong: The Adventures of Sherlaw Kombs'
    • p204, Anonymous, 'Sherlock Holmes vs. Conan Doyle'
    • p207, R. C. Lehmann, 'The Duke's Feather'
    • p211, Roy L. McCardell, 'The Sign of the "400": Being a Continuation of the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'
    • p216, Christopher Morley, 'Codeine (7 Per Cent)'
    • p228, Bliss Austin, 'The Final Problem'
    • p278, S. C. Roberts, 'The Strange Case of the Megatherium Thefts'
    • p296, William O. Fuller, 'A Night with Sherlock Holmes'
    • p306, Leslie S. Klinger, 'The Adventure of the Wooden Box'
    • p316, Donald Thomas, 'The Case of the Unseen Hand'
    • p337, Sam Benady, 'The Abandoned Brigantine'
    • p348, Barry Day, 'The Adventure of the Curious Canary'
    • p362, Frederic Dorr Steele, 'The Adventure of the Murdered Art Editor'
    • p378, James C. Iraldi, 'The Problem of the Purple Maculas'
    • p406, Robert Barr, 'The Adventure of the Second Swag'
    • p413, Stanley Rubinstein, 'Sheer Luck Again'
    • p427, Anonymous, 'Herlock Shomes at It Again'
    • p432, Anthony Armstrong, 'The Reigate Road Murder'
    • p436, William B. Kahn, 'The Succored Beauty'
    • p440, Gregory Breitman, 'The Marriage of Sherlock Holmes', translated by Benjamin Block
    • p455, Arthur Chapman, 'The Unmasking of Sherlock Holmes'
    • p458, George F. Forrest, 'The Adventure of the Diamond Necklace'
    • p461, Robert L. Fish, 'The Adventure of the Ascot Tie'
    • p470, Colin Dexter, 'A Case of Mis-Identity'
    • p506, Lyndsay Faye, 'The Case of Colonel Warburton's Madness'
    • p518, John Lutz, 'The Infernal Machine'
    • p541, Daniel Stashower, 'The Adventure of the Agitated Actress'
    • p580, June Thomson, 'The Case of the Friesland Outrage'
    • p594, Carole Buggé, 'The Strange Case of the Tongue-Tied Tenor'
    • p627, Anne Perry, 'Hostage to Fortune'
    • p640, Jon Koons, 'The Adventure of the Missing Countess'
    • p650, Rick Boyer, 'The Adventure of Zolnay, The Aerialist'
    • p671, John T. Lescroart, 'The Adventure of the Giant Rat of Sumatra'
    • p684, Julian Symons, 'Did Sherlock Holmes Meet Hercule...?'
    • p701, Barry Perowne, 'Raffles: The Enigma of the Admiral's Hat'
    • p713, Barry Perowne, 'Raffles on the Trail of the Hound'
    • p735, Kenneth Millar, 'The South Sea Soup Co.'
    • p739, Carolyn Wells, 'The Adventure of the Clothes-Line'
    • p744, Dorothy B. Hughes, 'Sherlock Holmes and the Muffin'
    • p755, Stuart M. Kaminsky, 'The Man from Capetown'
    • p774, Stuart Palmer, 'The Adventure of the Marked Man'
  • The essay on page xix does not have a credit on the title page, but is listed as by Arthur Conan Doyle in the table of contents.

Page Title Author(s) Type
4 The Field Bazaar Arthur Conan Doyle Short Story
7 How Watson Learned the Trick Arthur Conan Doyle Short Story
23 The Stolen Cigar-Case Bret Harte Short Story
45 The Adventure of the Two Collaborators James M. Barrie Short Story
58 The Doctor's Case Stephen King Novelette
78 The Brown Recluse Davis Grubb Novelette
95 The Darkwater Hall Mystery Kingsley Amis Short Story
114 The Late Sherlock Holmes James M. Barrie Short Fiction
126 The Rape of the Sherlock: Being the Only True Version of Holmes's Adventures A. A. Milne Short Story
128 From a Detective's Notebook P. G. Wodehouse Short Story
139 The Adventure of the Remarkable Worm August Derleth Short Story
169 The Case of Death and Honey Neil Gaiman Short Story
180 Murder to Music Anthony Burgess Short Story
194 An Evening with Sherlock Holmes James M. Barrie Short Story
220 Mrs. Hudson's Case Laurie R. King Short Fiction
242 The Adventures of the Bogle-Wolf Anthony Boucher Short Fiction
247 The Martian Crown Jewels Poul Anderson Short Story
258 Sherlock Among the Spirits Anonymous Short Story
261 The Case of the Missing Patriarchs Logan Clendening Short Story
263 The Devil and Sherlock Holmes Loren D. Estleman Short Story
286 The Adventure of the Noble Husband Peter Cannon Short Fiction
366 The Darlington Substitution Scandal David Stuart Davies Short Story
422 A Pragmatic Enigma John Kendrick Bangs Short Story
449 The Return of Sherlock Holmes E. F. Benson & Eustace H. Miles Short Story
484 Startling Events in the Electrified City Thomas Perry (1947-2025) Short Fiction
530 The Specter of Tullyfane Abbey Peter Tremayne Novelette
554 The Adventure of the Dorset Street Lodger Michael Moorcock Novelette
572 The Adventure of the Venomous Lizard Bill Crider Short Fiction
606 The Human Mystery Tanith Lee Short Fiction
691 A Trifling Affair H. R. F. Keating Short Story
727 The Adventure of the Cipher in the Sand Edward D. Hoch Short Fiction
768 But Our Hero Was Not Dead Manly Wade Wellman Short Story
xix Conan Doyle Tells the True Story of Sherlock Holmes's End Arthur Conan Doyle Essay
xv Introduction (The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories) Otto Penzler Essay