

My question is: given all these complications, in which order should one read the complete Sherlock Holmes? "The Adventure of the Gloria Scott", Holmes's first case) or much later, after Holmes retires (e.g. Still other stories are set much earlier, before Holmes and Watson met (e.g. But the cutoff point in-universe between these two periods is roughly marked by The Sign of Four, when Watson meets his wife, and this was only the second story to be published so clearly the chronological and publication orders do not agree. Some of them are set during the period when Holmes and Watson lived together at 221b Baker Street, and others during the period after Watson's marriage when they saw less of each other. These were published between 18, and set between around 18. The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (12 stories).The Return of Sherlock Holmes (13 stories).The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (11-12 stories).


The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (12 stories).fifty-six short stories, separated into five collections:.The canonical Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle comprise:
