The collection of the 60 published Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, as literary agent for Dr. John Watson, is called the Canon or the Sacred Writings.

The following shows the stories, their "official" abbreviations*, which collection they can be found in (see below for the meaning of the collection abbreviations) and when and where they were originally published. *Each story has been given an abbreviation by Jay Finley Christ in his Irregular Guide to Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street (1947). Sherlockian scholars often use these abbreviations to identify the tales in their Writings About the Writings. Click on any of the column headings to reload this page and show the list sorted in order by that column.

STORY TITLE ABREVIATION COLLECTION PUBLICATION PUBLICATION DATE The Adventure of the Three Gables 3GAB CAS Liberty The Strand September, 1926 October, 1926 The Adventure of the Three Garridebs 3GAR CAS Colliers The Strand October, 1924 January, 1925 The Adventure of the Three Students 3STU RET The Strand June, 1904 The Adventure of the Abbey Grange ABBE RET The Strand September, 1904 The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet BERY ADV The Strand May, 1892 The Adventure of Black Peter BLAC RET The Strand February, 1904 The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier BLAN CAS Liberty The Strand October, 1926 November, 1926 The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle BLUE ADV The Strand January, 1892 The Boscombe Valley Mystery BOSC ADV The Strand October, 1891 The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans BRUC BOW The Strand December, 1908 The Adventure of the Cardboard Box CARD BOW The Strand January, 1893 The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton CHAS RET Colliers The Strand March, 1904 April, 1904 The Adventure of the Copper Beeches COPP ADV The Strand June, 1892 The Adventure of the Creeping Man CREE CAS The Strand March, 1923 The Adventure of the Crooked Man CROO MEM The Strand July, 1893 The Adventure of the Dancing Men DANC RET The Strand December, 1903 The Adventure of the Devil's Foot DEVI BOW The Strand December, 1910 The Adventure of the Dying Detective DYIN BOW The Strand December, 1913 The Adventure of the Empty House EMPT RET Colliers The Strand September, 1903 October, 1903 The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb ENGR ADV The Strand March, 1892 The Adventure of the Final Problem FINA MEM The Strand December, 1893 The Five Orange Pips FIVE ADV The Strand November, 1891 The "Gloria Scott" GLOR MEM The Strand April, 1893 The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez GOLD RET The Strand July, 1904 The Greek Interpreter GREE MEM The Strand September, 1893 The Hound of the Basketvilles HOUN MEM The Strand August, 1901 through April, 1902 A Case of Identity IDEN ADV The Strand September, 1891 The Adventure of the Illustrious Client ILLU CAS Colliers The Strand November, 1924 May, 1925 The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax LADY BOW The Strand December, 1911 His Last Bow LAST BOW The Strand September, 1917 The Adventure of the Lion's Mane LION CAS Liberty The Strand November, 1926 December, 1926 The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone MAZA CAS The Strand October, 1921 The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter MISS RET The Strand August, 1904 The Musgrave Ritual MUSG MEM The Strand May, 1893 The Naval Treaty NAVA MEM The Strand (two parts) October, 1893 November, 1893 The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor NOBL ADV The Strand April, 1892 The Adventure of the Norwood Builder NORW RET Colliers The Strand October, 1903 November, 1903 The Adventure of the Priory School PRIO RET Colliers The Strand January, 1904 February, 1904 The Adventure of the Red Circle REDC BOW The Strand (two parts) March, 1911 April, 1911 The Red-Headed League REDH ADV The Strand August, 1891 The Reigate Squires REIG MEM The Strand June, 1893 The Resident Patient RESI MEM The Strand August, 1893 The Adventure of the Retired Colourman RETI CAS Liberty The Strand December, 1926 January, 1927 A Scandal in Bohemia SCAN ADV The Strand July, 1891 The Adventure of the Second Stain SECO RET The Strand December, 1904 The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place SHOS CAS Liberty The Strand March, 1927 April, 1927 The Sign of Four SIGN CAS Lippincott's February, 1890 Silver Blaze SILV MEM The Strand December, 1892 The Adventure of the Six Napoleons SIXN RET Colliers The Strand April, 1904 May, 1904 The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist SOLI RET Colliers The Strand December, 1903 January, 1904 The Adventure of the Speckled Band SPEC ADV The Strand February, 1892 The Stock-Broker's Clerk STOC MEM The Strand March, 1893 A Study in Scarlet STUD MEM Beeton's Christmas Annual December, 1887 The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire SUSS CAS The Strand January, 1924 The Problem of Thor Bridge THOR CAS The Strand February, 1922 The Man With the Twisted Lip TWIS ADV The Strand December, 1891 The Valley of Fear VALL ADV Associated Sunday Newspapers September, 1914 through November, 1914 The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger VEIL CAS Liberty The Strand January, 1927 February, 1927 The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge WIST BOW Colliers The Strand August, 1908 October, 1908 The Yellow Face YELL MEM The Strand February, 1893

ABREVIATION COLLECTION DATE OF PUBLICATION       ADV The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 1892       MEM The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes 1894       RET The Return of Sherlock Holmes 1905       BOW His Last Bow 1917       CAS The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes 1927

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