Sherlock Holmes, the world's first, and best, consulting detective was also a writer. Most of what he wrote had to do with the science and art of detection. However, there are a few notable exceptions.
This is a list of his published works to date and the works we are told are still in progress.
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Title of Work |
Description |
Canonical Reference |
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| The Book of Life |
A magazine article about the science of detection |
STUD |
Published | |
| Upon the Distinction between the Ashes of the Various Tobaccos |
SIGN BOSC |
Published | ||
| Monograph upon the tracing of footsteps, with some remarks upon the uses of plaster of Paris as a preserver of impresses |
SIGN |
Published | ||
| The influences of a trade upon the form of the hand, with lithotypes of the hands of slaters, sailors, cork-cutters, compositors, weavers, and diamond-polishers. |
The treatises about tobacco ashes, footprints, and the effects of trade upon the hands are being translated into French for use by the rising French detective Francois le Villard |
SIGN |
Published | |
| Monograph on the typewriter and its relation to crime |
CASE |
Projected | ||
| Monograph on Cryptology |
DANC |
Published | ||
| Art of Detection |
ABBE |
Projected as a single volume | ||
| Age of Documents |
HOUN |
Published | ||
| Monographs on the human ear |
Two separate monographs |
CARD |
Published in the Anthropological Journal | |
| Monograph on the polyphonic motets of Lassus |
Music of the Middle Ages is a hobby of Holmes |
BRUC |
In progress | |
| Monograph on malingering |
DYIN |
Projected | ||
| On the Use of Dogs in Detective Work |
CREE |
Projected | ||
| Practical Handbook of Bee Culture, with Some Observations upon the Segregation of the Queen |
His last work so far |
LAST |
Published | |
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