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The Beetle Hunter

Arthur Conan Doyle

First published June 1898
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story
Series Round the Fire #1

"An unemployed doctor answers an advert in the Standard and goes for an interview with Lord Linchfield who requires a strong man with a good knowledge of beetles. They go... to Delamere Court, home of tall eccentric beetle expert Sir Thomas Rossiter...." (Books & Boots) The events of the first night of their stay demonstrate why the doctor was summoned.

Non-speculative mystery story (one of Doyle's many mysteries in which the perpetrator is a madman). First published in the Strand Magazine, June 1898.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
June 1898 Cover The Strand Magazine, June 1898 George Newnes MAGAZINE 602
1908 Round the Fire Stories The McClure Company Collection 20
1908 Cover Round the Fire Stories Smith, Elder & Co. Collection 18
1922 Cover Tales of Terror and Mystery John Murray Collection
1925 Cover The Black Doctor and Other Tales of Terror and Mystery George H. Doran Collection |8
June 1929 Cover The Conan Doyle Stories John Murray Collection
October 1939 The Conan Doyle Stories John Murray Collection
December 1940 The Conan Doyle Stories John Murray Collection
December 1945 Cover The Conan Doyle Stories John Murray Collection 571
March 1949 Cover The Conan Doyle Stories John Murray Collection
August 1951 The Conan Doyle Stories John Murray Collection
November 1956 The Conan Doyle Stories John Murray Collection
August 1960 The Conan Doyle Stories John Murray Collection 571
1978 Cover Tales of Terror and Mystery Pan Books Collection |0.08
1979 Tales of Terror and Mystery Penguin Books Collection |9
1981 Cover O Enigma do Trem Perdido Francisco Alves Collection
March 1982 Cover Le train perdu 10/18 Collection 144
February 1983 Cover Der Kapitän der Polestar und andere unheimliche Abenteuer Bastei Lübbe Collection 153
May 1991 Cover Round the Fire Stories Chronicle Books Collection 12
May 1996 Tales of Terror and Mystery Project Gutenberg Collection |8
1999 Cover Classic Mysteries II: A Collection of Mind-bending Masterpieces Lowell House Anthology 55
2004 Cover Kadunud erirong Fantaasia Collection
April 2013 Cover Tales of Terror and Mystery Serenity Publishers Collection |0.08
December 2015 Cover Round the Fire Stories MysteriousPress.com / Open Road Collection
October 2016 Cover Gothic Tales Oxford University Press Collection
October 2016 Cover Gothic Tales Oxford University Press Collection
February 2017 Round the Fire Stories Project Gutenberg Collection |18
March 2018 Cover Gothic Tales Oxford University Press Collection 303
June 2018 Nota do Tradutor, June 2018 Revista de Tradução Literária e Biblioteca Digital MAGAZINE
June 2018 Nota do Tradutor, June 2018 Revista de Tradução Literária e Biblioteca Digital MAGAZINE
January 2020 Cover Tales of Terror and Mystery Bibliotech Press Collection |0.08