The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes

The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes (1954)

The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 12 short stories, Sherlock Holmes pastiches, written by Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr published in 1954 by John Murray. The stories were originally published in LIFE Magazine in december 1952 for the first one, and in Collier's between may and october 1953 for the eleventh others. All illustrated by Adolf Hallman.

The first six were co-written by the two authors, and the six last only by Adrian Conan Doyle only as John Dickson Carr was ill.

In LIFE Magazine, an article titled How Holmes Was Reborn: A Unique Literary Partnership Engineered His Second Return, written by Herbert Brean, followed the story and explained the partnership of Adrian and Carr.

It has also been published as The New Exploits of Sherlock Holmes in 1954-1956 by Ace Books.

Stories

Chronology of first publication in magazines

Title	Date	Magazine	Author(s)
The Adventure of the Seven Clocks	29 december 1952	LIFE Magazine	Adrian Conan Doyle & John Dickson Carr
The Adventure of the Black Baronet	23 may 1953	Collier's	Adrian Conan Doyle & John Dickson Carr
The Adventure of the Gold Hunter	30 may 1953	Collier's	Adrian Conan Doyle & John Dickson Carr
The Adventure of the Highgate Miracle	6 june 1953	Collier's	Adrian Conan Doyle & John Dickson Carr
The Adventure of the Sealed Room	13 june 1953	Collier's	Adrian Conan Doyle & John Dickson Carr
The Adventure of the Wax Gamblers	20 june 1953	Collier's	Adrian Conan Doyle & John Dickson Carr
The Adventure of Foulkes Rath	27 june 1953	Collier's	Adrian Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Demon Angels	7 august 1953	Collier's	Adrian Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Abbas Ruby	21 august 1953	Collier's	Adrian Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Two Women	4 september 1953	Collier's	Adrian Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Deptford Horror	18 september 1953	Collier's	Adrian Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Red Widow	2 october 1953	Collier's	Adrian Conan Doyle

Untold stories used for the plots

Title	Based on untold story	From SH stories
The Adventure of the Seven Clocks	Trepoff Murder	SCAN
The Adventure of the Black Baronet	Nonpareil Club / Madame Montpensier	HOUN
The Adventure of the Gold Hunter	Camberwell Poisoning Case	FIVE
The Adventure of the Highgate Miracle	The Disappearance of Mr. James Phillimore	THOR
The Adventure of the Sealed Room	The Case of Colonel Warburton's Madness	ENGR
The Adventure of the Wax Gamblers	The Case of the Darlington Substitution Scandal	SCAN
The Adventure of Foulkes Rath	The Addleton Tragedy	GOLD
The Adventure of the Demon Angels	The Case of the Ferrers Documents	PRIO
The Adventure of the Abbas Ruby	Nonpareil Club / Madame Montpensier	HOUN
The Adventure of the Two Women	Blackmailing in England	HOUN
The Adventure of the Deptford Horror	The Death of Cardinal Tosca / Wilson the Canary-trainer	BLAC
The Adventure of the Red Widow	The Darlington Scandal / The Arnsworth Castle Business	SCAN

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