^^^A ANNOTATED Holmes Sherlock VOLUME 1 ''^'-' --'^'f-'^i'-f W '^^ ^W^*;l..-'<'\.-U.W^^v« THE FOUR NOVELS AND THE FIFTY-SIX SHORT STORIES COMPLETE ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE SIR BY TLLIAM BARING-GOULD S. Illustrated with Maps, Diagrams, Coats-of-Arms, Photographs, and Drawings by Charles Doyle, Howard K. Elcock, D. H. Friston,A. Gilbert,James Grieg, George Hutchinson, William H. Hyde, Charles Raymond Macauley, Sidney Paget, Frederic DorrSteele,ArthurTwidle,Frank WilesandNumerous Others THE ANNOTATED SHERLOCK HOLMES by William S. Baring-Gould Ithasbeensaid that threefictional characters areknowntoreadersallovertheworld: Ham- let, Robinson Crusoe—and Sherlock Holmes. Holmeshasbeen called "themostconvincing, themostbrilliant,themostcongenialandwell loved of all the detectives of fiction," and his stalwart friend andbiographer,John H. Wat- son. M.D.. late of the .Army Medical Depart- ment, "the most famous and best-loved phy- sician in literature." Here, in tvvo volumes, is every word that Sir ArthurConan Doyle 1859-1930) everwrote ( about the adventuresof the detective and the doctor—fifty-si.\ short stories and four com- plete novels, arranged chronologically from Holmes's first case, in 1874, when he was a university student, to his signal service to the BritishEmpireintheopeningdaysoftheFirst World War. William S. Baring-Gould, theeditor, whowas one of the greatest Sherlockian authorities, wrote two previous volumes about the Sage of Baker Streel—The Chronological Holmes and Sherlock Holmes of BakerStreet: A Life of the World's First Consulting Detective. To this work he contributed eleven fascinat- ing chaptersof introduction on Conan Doyle, on Holmes and Watson and the evil Profes- lor James Moriarty, and on the Baker Street Kcne; he also provided "interludes" that throw a new light on many (jcrplexing prob- lems raised by Watson's writings; and in addition annouted each adventure from his vast collection of "Writings about the Writings." He amassed as well, from files of yellowing books and magazines, British and American, hundreds of illuminating maps. (continuedonbackflap) " JOHN'S ITW. OOD Station VHoCnoovveenrtSGq'.dns.Mkt.St'Pouls "Liverpool St.Sta. indtopi ftrJuuA, i %^\£Grosvenor/7SvStiH5o', -.^ o,OieTowAery^ikStom whitehaliJJlAMBETH ot'oS"^'"^ ," WESTMINSTERnWestminsterBr.BERMONOSEY an • Victori<,StAioo//KENNINGTON VauxhollBridge Kennington Pai-i^ PECKHAM CAMBERWELL BLACKHEATH .APHAM LEE CloptiamJunction BRIXTON LEWISHAM MARYLEBONE U"" P°£i2ero^^^*'^DtQ:EDVEDOVNOSNiSHHlIDRREEiSSTT.. n UPPER GEORGE ST. AYlm 11" I D^nqi /)U;y:UJ I MANCHESTER ^ PI l~~| M iDQWIG\MORElSTREET D \ m P "l" r^\ HENRIETTA ST. p— pSTREET « -i I ItiovemyeyeonosuiteInBaker Street... —A Studyin Scarlet. i , " T.JOHN'S "St.PoncrasStotion WOOD "EustonSfotion 221B.X. .Briti.shCMoTuus'e:u>m' ^<>Sft."Ba«r'f''6«.HSo,sop,itiaoln itation ,Cov^e.n..t.Ge'.dn<s>.^Mkf.St°^Pouls "L-iAvleHrnpnoto*lmSnt.SSt7o-,* London -w'hitehalUIlAMBETH ^"'9 WESTMINSTERriWestminsterBr.BERMONDSEY StAloo//KENNINGTON Victoria ^ Vauxholl Bridge TheOval- Vennington Pork PECKHAM CAMBERWELL BLACKHEATH CLAPHAM LEE ClophomJunction BRIXTON LEWISHAM MARYLEBONE ROAD ^ PADO^WerovT^**(t DEVONSHIRE ST. .^.aDiDii DORSETST n>l Sm,C3 WEYMOUTH ST, 'j^ Is I r~l'"Nw NEWCAVENDISH ST, UPPER GEORGE ST. u/\\|m5 11M"' 1}1 I D-tig 1 MANCHESTER '^ I"! I~~l I Qi'diQa-DDI WIGMORE STREET J IZDiDQ^I D Ui r l" P^ p3\ HENRIETTA ST. P -1 r STREET y , "IhovemyeyeonasuiteInBoker Street .. A StudyIn Scorlet. Digitized by the Internet Archive 2010 in http://www.archive.org/details/annotatedsherloc01doyl SIRARTHURCONAN DOYLE The creator of Sherlock Holmesand John H. Watson, M.D., from a pastel portrait by Henry Gates, 1933, after an oil painting by the same artist, 1927. The original hangs in the National PortraitGallery,London,a presentationbySirArthur'sdaughter.Lady Bromct. The ANNOTATED Sherlock Holmes Also By VViLUAM S. Barinc-Gould The Lure of che Limerick Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street With Ceil Barinc-Golld The Annotated Mother Goose