Sherlock Holmes, fictional character created by the Scottish writer Arthur Conan Doyle, the prototype for the modern mastermind detective. As the world's first and only "consulting detective," he pursued criminals throughout Victorian and Edwardian London, the south of England, and continental Europe. Although the fictional detective had been anticipated by Edgar Allan Poe's C. Auguste Dupin and Émile Gaboriau's Monsieur Lecoq, Holmes made a singular impact upon the popular imagination and has been the most enduring character of the detective story.
This book contains all the novels and stories of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle