Arthur Conan Doyle bibliography explained

Author:	Arthur Conan Doyle
Novel:	22
Novellink:	Novels
Collection:	16
Collectionlink:	Short story collections
Story:	204
Storylink:	Publications in periodicals
Play:	14
Playlink:	Stage works
Booklink:	Non fiction
Option:	13
Optionname:	Spiritualist and paranormal books
Optionlink:	Spiritualist and paranormal works
1Option:	10
1Optionname:	Spiritualist and paranormal pamphlets
1Optionlink:	Pamphlets
2Option:	1
2Optionname:	Operettas
2Optionlink:	Stage works
Poem:	4
Poemlink:	Poetry

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle KStJ, DL (1859–1930) was a Scottish writer and physician. In addition to the series of stories chronicling the activities of Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr John Watson for which he is well known, Doyle wrote on a wide range of topics, both fictional and non-fictional. In 1876 Doyle entered the University of Edinburgh Medical School, where he became a pupil of Joseph Bell, whose deductive processes impressed his pupil so much that the teacher became the chief model for Holmes. Doyle began writing while still a student, and in October 1879 he had his first work—"The Mystery of the Sasassa Valley"—published in Chambers's Journal. He continued writing short works—both fictional and non-fictional—throughout his career, and had over 200 stories and articles published.

In July 1891 Doyle published the short story "A Scandal in Bohemia" in The Strand Magazine—a "story which would change his life", according to his biographer, Andrew Lycett, as it introduced Holmes and Watson to a wide audience; the duo had provided the subject of Doyle's first novel, A Study in Scarlet, which was published in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887. The story in The Strand was one in a series of six, published in successive months. They were well received by the public, and the editors of the magazine commissioned a further six stories, and then another series of twelve. Doyle, fearful of having his other work overshadowed by his fictional detective, killed his creation off in December 1893 in "The Adventure of the Final Problem". He also wrote four full-length Holmes works, as well as adventure novels and nine historical works of fiction. In 1912 he began the adventure series featuring Professor Challenger, who first appeared in The Lost World—both in short stories and novels.

Doyle also wrote four volumes of poetry and a series of stage works—his first was Jane Annie, an unsuccessful attempt at a libretto to an operetta, which he wrote with J. M. Barrie. Doyle was an enthusiastic supporter of the Boer War, and wrote two histories of the events. During the First World War he also wrote extensively on that conflict, both short articles and a six-volume history. Following the close successive deaths of his son and his brother, Doyle turned to spiritualism and wrote extensively on the subject; his biographer Owen Dudley Edwards writes that at the time of Doyle's death in July 1930, while the writer "most wanted to be remembered as a champion of spiritualism and as a historical novelist, it is Sherlock Holmes who has continued to capture the imagination of the public".

Publications in periodicals

Title	Date of publication	Periodical	Notes
		Chambers's Journal	published anonymously
		British Medical Journal
		London Society	Christmas issue
		London Society
		London Society	published as by "A.C.D."
		London Society	published anonymously
		London Society
		London Society
		All the Year Round	published anonymously
		London Society
		Temple Bar
		All the Year Round	published anonymously
		Bow Bells
		London Society
		London Society
			Christmas issue
		Good Words	semi-scientific article
		Temple Bar
		Cassell's Saturday Journal
		Cassell's Saturday Journal	serialized in two installments
		Cassell's Saturday Journal
		Bow Bells
			Christmas issue
		London Society
		Cassell's Saturday Journal
		Belgravia
			Christmas issue
		London Society
		Cassell's Magazine
			Christmas issue
			serialised over seven issues
		Beeton's Christmas Annual	Sherlock Holmes novel
			novel serialized in The Pall Mall Budget and The Pall Mall Gazette
		Chambers's Journal
		The People	novel serialized from October 1889 to April 1890
		Lippincott's Magazine	Sherlock Holmes novel
		Blackwood's Magazine
		Chambers's Journal
		The People	published anonymously
The White Company	– December 1891		serialised throughout the year
		Temple Bar
			credited in the table of contents but not on the story itself
		Black and White
			Sherlock Holmes story
		Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper
			Sherlock Holmes story
			Sherlock Holmes story
			Sherlock Holmes story
			Sherlock Holmes story
			Sherlock Holmes story
			Christmas issue
		Good Words	Christmas issue
			Sherlock Holmes story
			Sherlock Holmes story
			Sherlock Holmes story
			Sherlock Holmes story
			Sherlock Holmes story
			Sherlock Holmes story
			Sherlock Holmes story
	– June 1893	Harper's Magazine	serial
			Sherlock Holmes story
			Sherlock Holmes story
			Sherlock Holmes story
			Sherlock Holmes story
			Sherlock Holmes story
			Sherlock Holmes story
			Sherlock Holmes story
			Sherlock Holmes story
			Sherlock Holmes story
	– November 1893		Sherlock Holmes story
			Sherlock Holmes story
	–November 1895		novel in epistolary form
			Brigadier Gerard story
			serialized in two parts
			Brigadier Gerard story
			Brigadier Gerard story
			Brigadier Gerard story
			Brigadier Gerard story
			Brigadier Gerard story
			Brigadier Gerard story
			Brigadier Gerard story
	– December 1896		serialised in 12 parts
		Punch
			"Tales of the High Seas"/Captain Sharkey story
	– March 1897		serialised weekly
			"Tales of the High Seas"/Captain Sharkey story
	– December 1897		serialised over eight instalments
			"Tales of the High Seas"/Captain Sharkey story
			"Tales of the High Seas" story
			later published as "The New Catacomb"
			Round the Fire story
			Round the Fire story
			Round the Fire story
			Round the Fire story
			Round the Fire story
		The Manchester Weekly Times	also published in Ainslee's Magazine, October 1898
			Round the Fire story
			Round the Fire story
			Round the Fire story
			Round the Fire story
			Round the Fire story
			Round the Fire story
			Round the Fire story
	– December 1899		serialised in three parts
			completion of novel by Grant Allen
			completion of novel by Grant Allen
		Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly
			"Strange Studies From Life" article
			"Strange Studies From Life" article
			"Strange Studies From Life" article
	– April 1902		Sherlock Holmes novel; serialised over nine months
			Brigadier Gerard story
			Brigadier Gerard story
			Brigadier Gerard story
	– February 1903		Brigadier Gerard story
			Brigadier Gerard story
			Brigadier Gerard story
			Brigadier Gerard story
			Sherlock Holmes story
			Sherlock Holmes story
			Sherlock Holmes story
			Sherlock Holmes story
			Sherlock Holmes story
			Sherlock Holmes story
			Sherlock Holmes story
			Sherlock Holmes story
			Sherlock Holmes story
			Sherlock Holmes story
			Sherlock Holmes story
			Sherlock Holmes story
			Sherlock Holmes story
	– December 1906		serialised over 13 issues
	– October 1907	Cassell's Magazine
			Sherlock Holmes story; published in book form as first part of "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge"
			Sherlock Holmes story; published in book form as second part of "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge"
			Sherlock Holmes story
			story in verse
			Brigadier Gerard story
			"Through the Mists" story
			Sherlock Holmes story
			"Through the Mists" story
			"Through the Mists" story
	– April 1911		Sherlock Holmes story
			Captain Sharkey story
			Sherlock Holmes story
	– November 1912		Professor Challenger story
	– July 1913		Professor Challenger story
			Sherlock Holmes story
	– May 1915		Sherlock Holmes novel; serialised over nine issues
	– April 1915
	– June 1917		serialised over fifteen months
			Sherlock Holmes story
			Sherlock Holmes-related article
			"Three of Them" story
			"Three of Them" story
	– June 1918
			"Three of Them" story
			"Three of Them" story
	– November 1918
			"Three of Them" story
	– February 1919
			Interview by Hayden Church
	, January, May, September and November 1920
			Sherlock Holmes story
	– March 1922		Sherlock Holmes story
			contribution to symposium
			Sherlock Holmes story
	– July 1924		autobiography; serialised over ten issues
			Sherlock Holmes story
			contribution to symposium
			Sherlock Holmes story
	– March 1925		Sherlock Holmes story
"The Land of Mist"	– March 1926		Professor Challenger story
			Sherlock Holmes story
			Sherlock Holmes story
			Sherlock Holmes story
			Sherlock Holmes story
			Sherlock Holmes story
			Sherlock Holmes story
			Sherlock Holmes-related essay
	– September 1927
	– February 1928
	– May 1928		Professor Challenger story
			Professor Challenger story
	– May 1929
			also published in The Strand Magazine, December 1930
			also published in The Strand Magazine, November 1930

Novels

Novels by Doyle

Title	Year of first publication	First edition publisher (London, unless otherwise stated)	Series or genre	Notes
The Narrative of John Smith	1883 (2011)	British Library Publishing		Written in 1883, but lost. Found and published for the first time in 2011.
		Beeton's Christmas Annual	Sherlock Holmes
Micah Clarke		Longmans, Green & Co.	Historical fiction
		Ward and Downey	Horror / adventure
		Spencer Blackett	Sherlock Holmes	Also appeared in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in February 1890
		Chatto & Windus	Romance/adventure
		Smith, Elder & Co.	Historical fiction	First of three volumes
		Cassell & Co	Social science fiction
		J. W. Arrowsmith, Bristol	Historical fiction	In 1893 the second edition was published that also included Beyond the City
		Longmans, Green & Co.	Historical fiction	First of three volumes
		Constable & Co.	Horror/adventure
		Longmans, Green & Co.	–
Rodney Stone		Smith, Elder & Co.	Historical fiction
Uncle Bernac		Horace Cox	Historical fiction
		Smith, Elder & Co.	Historical fiction
		Grant Richards	–
		George Newnes	Sherlock Holmes
Sir Nigel		Smith, Elder & Co.	Historical fiction
		Hodder & Stoughton	Professor Challenger
		Hodder & Stoughton	Professor Challenger
		Smith, Elder & Co.	Sherlock Holmes
		Hutchinson & Co	Professor Challenger
		J. Murray & Sons	Horror / adventure	Novel with three short stories

Short story collections

Short story collections by Doyle

Title	Year of first publication	First edition publisher (All London)	Series or genre
Mysteries and Adventures		Scott	Mysteries
		Longmans, Green	–
		George Newnes	Sherlock Holmes
		Scott	Mysteries
		George Newnes	Sherlock Holmes
Round the Red Lamp: Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life		Methuen	–
		George Newnes	Brigadier Gerard
		Smith, Elder & Co.	–
		George Newnes	Brigadier Gerard
		George Newnes	Sherlock Holmes
Round the Fire Stories		Smith, Elder & Co.	–
		Smith, Elder & Co.	–
His Last Bow		John Murray	Sherlock Holmes
Danger	and Other Stories		John Murray	–
Three of Them		John Murray	–
		John Murray	Sherlock Holmes

Stage works

Stage works of Doyle

Title	Location of first performance	Date of first performance	Year of publication	Publisher (London, unless otherwise stated)	Notes
Jane Annie or, The Good Conduct Prize	London			Chappell & Co.	Libretto to operetta, with J.M. Barrie; music by Ernest Ford
Foreign Policy	London		–	–	Based on A Question of Diplomacy
	Bristol			Samuel French Ltd.	A one-act play written for Sir Henry Irving
Brothers	Aberdeen			–	Based on novel Halves by James Payn
Sherlock Holmes	London			Samuel French Ltd.	With William Gillette
	London			Samuel French Ltd.
Brigadier Gerard	London			Gaslight, Bloomington, IN
	Liverpool		–	–
	London		–	–
	London		–	–
	London			Samuel French Ltd.
	Bristol			Privately printed
Angels of Darkness: A Drama in Three Acts	–	–		The Baker Street Irregulars in cooperation with the Toronto Public Library, New York, NY

Poetry

The majority of Doyle's poetry falls into the genre of war poetry.

Doyle's poetry

Title	Year of first publication	First edition publisher (All London)
Songs of Action		Smith, Elder & Co.
Songs of the Road		Smith, Elder & Co.
		J. Murray
		J. Murray

Non-fiction

Non-fiction books by Doyle

Title	Year of first publication	First edition publisher (All London)	Topic
		Smith, Elder & Co.	Military history
		Smith, Elder & Co.	Military history
Through the Magic Door		Smith, Elder & Co.	Memoir of the books in Doyle's library
		Hutchinson	History
		Hodder & Stoughton	Crime
		Hodder & Stoughton	Military history
		Hodder & Stoughton	Military history
		Hodder & Stoughton	Military history
Memories and Adventures		Hodder & Stoughton	Autobiography
Dangerous Work: Diary of an Arctic Adventure			Autobiography

Spiritualist and paranormal works

Books

Spiritualist and paranormal books by Doyle

Title	Year of first publication	First edition publisher (All London)
		Hodder & Stoughton
		Hodder & Stoughton
Verbatim Report of a Public Debate on 'The Truth of Spiritualism' between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Joseph McCabe		Watts & Co
		Hodder & Stoughton
		Hodder & Stoughton
		Hutchinson
Our American Adventure		Hodder & Stoughton
Our Second American Adventure		Hodder & Stoughton
		Two Worlds Publishing Company
		Cassell
Pheneas Speaks^[1]		Psychic Press
Our African Winter		John Murray
		John Murray

Pamphlets

Spiritualist and paranormal pamphlets by Doyle

Title	Year of first publication	First edition publisher (London, unless otherwise stated)	Pages
			11
Our reply to the Cleric: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Lecture in Leicester, October 19th 1919		Spiritualists' National Union, Halifax	16
Spiritualism and Rationalism		Hodder & Stoughton	32
		Psychic Bookshop and Library	12
Psychic Experiences		G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York	12
		Psychic Bookshop and Library	19
What Does Spiritualism Actually Teach and Stand For?		Psychic Bookshop and Library	16
		Psychic Press	72
		Psychic Press	12
		Rupert Books, Cambridge	32

Notes and references

Sources

• Ashley. Mike . Sherlock Holmes in The Strand. The Book and Magazine Collector. Diamond Publishing Group. April 2008. 295.
• Dalby. Richard . The Horror and Adventure Stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle . The Book and Magazine Collector. Diamond Publishing Group. July 1992 . 100.
• Dalby. Richard . The Historical Fiction of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle . The Book and Magazine Collector. Diamond Publishing Group. February 1995. 131.
• Dalby. Richard . Arthur Conan Doyle and the Paranormal. The Book and Magazine Collector. Diamond Publishing Group. March 1998. 168.
• Dudley Edwards. Owen . Owen Dudley Edwards. Doyle, Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan (1859–1930) . 31 March 2015 . 10.1093/ref:odnb/32887. 2004.
• Book: Grella. George . Dematteis. Philip B.. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle . Fredeman. William E.. Nadel. Ira B. . Dictionary of Literary Biography: Victorian Novelists after 1885. 1983 . . Detroit. 978-0-8103-1143-5 . registration.
• Book: Locke, Harold. A Bibliographical Catalogue of the Writings of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle MD, LLD. 1928. D Webster. Tunbridge Wells. 3698003.
• Book: Lycett, Andrew. Andrew Lycett. Conan Doyle: The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes. 2008. 978-0-7538-2428-3. Phoenix. London.

External links

• • • Works at Project Gutenberg Australia
• Online works available from The University of Adelaide Library
• Web site: Sherlock Holmes. 8 July 1930. at Internet Archive

Notes and References

1. Web site: Photographic image of notecard from Conan Doyle. JPG. Arthur-conan-doyle.com. 10 November 2021. 2 June 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220602214729/https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/images/e/e5/Notecard-sacd-1927-03-pheneas-speaks-recto.jpg. live.