Conan Doyle's Best Books

The 3 volumes
(P. F. Collier & Son, 1904)

Conan Doyle's Best Books are 3 volumes collecting 4 novels and 20 short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle published by P. F. Collier & Son in 1904.

The 3 volumes are illustrated by Frederic Dorr Steele that were used for the covers of Collier's magazines :

• Volume 1 : 1 frontispiece and 4 illustrations
• Volume 2 : 1 frontispiece and 4 illustrations
• Volume 3 : 1 frontispiece only (photo)

Stories

Volume 1

Frontispiece Volume 1. Illustration by Frederic Dorr Steele.

• The Original of Sherlock Holmes, by Dr. Harold E. Jones
• A Study in Scarlet (4 illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele)
• A Scandal in Bohemia
• A Case of Identity
• My Friend the Murderer
• The Surgeon of Gaster Fell
• Cyprian Overbeck Wells
• The Ring of Thoth
• John Huxford's Hiatus

• Illustrations of volume 1
• 
  Frontispiece. Not an illustration of "A Study in Scarlet". The illustration was originally used in Collier's for The Norwood Builder (31 october 1903).
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  Page 18. Not an illustration of "A Study in Scarlet". The illustration was originally used in Collier's for The Empty House (26 september 1903).
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  Page 42. Not an illustration of "A Study in Scarlet". The illustration was originally used in Collier's for The Norwood Builder (31 october 1903).
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  Page 66. Not an illustration of "A Study in Scarlet". The illustration was originally used in Collier's for The Norwood Builder (31 october 1903) and they added "Rache" on it.
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  Page 114. Not an illustration of "A Study in Scarlet". The illustration was originally used in Collier's for The Priory School (30 january 1904).

Volume 2

Frontispiece Volume 2. Illustration by Frederic Dorr Steele.

• The Sign of Four (4 illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele)
• The Mystery of Sasassa Valley
• The American's Tale
• Our Derby Sweepstakes
• A Night Among the Nihilists
• Bones
• Ellias B. Hopkins
• John Barrington Cowles
• The Secret of Goresthorpe Grange
• The Captain of the "Pole-Star"
• J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement
• The Great Keinplatz Experiment
• The Man from Archangel
• That Little Square Box

• Illustrations of volume 2
• 
  Frontispiece. Not an illustration of "The Sign of Four". The illustration was originally used as the cover of Collier's for The Solitary Cyclist (26 december 1903).
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  Page 26. Not an illustration of "The Sign of Four". The illustration was originally used in Collier's for The Empty House (26 september 1903).
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  Page 74. Not an illustration of "The Sign of Four". The illustration was originally used in Collier's for The Solitary Cyclist (26 december 1903).
• 
  Page 98. Not an illustration of "The Sign of Four". The illustration was originally used in Collier's for The Solitary Cyclist (26 december 1903).
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  Page 146. Not an illustration of "The Sign of Four". The illustration was originally used in Collier's for The Priory School (30 january 1904).

Volume 3

Frontispiece Volume 3. Photo of Arthur Conan Doyle.

• The White Company
• Beyond the City

Cover

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  Cover

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