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Language English Media type Print (Hardcover) Originally published 1954 Publisher John Murray | 4.4/5 Goodreads Publication date 1954 Pages 313 Page count 313 Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Genres Short story, Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, Detective fiction Similar John Dickson Carr books, Detective fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes is a short story collection of Sherlock Holmes pastiches written by Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr, first published in 1954. As an early and rather authoritative example of Sherlockian pastiche—the collaborators being the son and the authorised biographer of Holmes's creator—there is much to interest collectors.
Each story in this collection is postscripted with a quote from one of the original Sherlock Holmes stories, making reference to an undocumented Holmes case that inspired it.
Stories and writing
The stories contained in the collection are:
The collaboration was not smooth, as Douglas G. Greene relates in John Dickson Carr: The Man Who Explained Miracles. There is some doubt about who wrote what—though at times Carr's highly recognisable style breaks through the convention of pastiching the original Conan Doyle stories.
In 1963 John Murray published two paperback volumes which divided the stories into The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes by Adrian Conan Doyle and More Exploits of Sherlock Holmes by Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr. The first title contains the last six stories listed above, the second the first six. Greene suggests that authorship may be more complex.