July 12 – September 22, 1874: The ‘ Gloria Scott’ (from TMSH). At the risk of being accused of vanity, into the list this literary agent interjects the timing for those stories that I have been so fortunate as to unearth and publish. He was known, from time to time, to even be off by a year or more (a key example of this can be found in A Scandal in Bohemia, which he reports having correct on 20 March 1888). Dr Watson, for all his excellent qualities, was never his best with dates.

These individuals have often followed but the vaguest of clues in the stories themselves in order to come to their conclusions. Klinger in The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes (2005-6), which are themselves the products of the personal research and consensus of other Sherlockian scholars. Baring-Gould in The Annotated Sherlock Holmes (1967) and Leslie S. I generally follow the dating laid out by the great Sherlockian editors William S. By following this list, the reader is able to see for themselves the maturation of Holmes and Watson, from relatively young lads with all of London at their fingertips, to the mature gentlemen reflecting upon a lifetime of adventure. Therefore, for the reader, either new to these wondrous tales or seeking to read them all again, I present the following option. Watson, did not publish the stories in a strict chronologic order, with many stories told primarily as flashbacks.

However, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the first literary agent for Dr John H. How best to read the various tales of Sherlock Holmes? The most obvious answer to that question is: the order in which they were written and published, beginning with A Study in Scarlet.

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