Illustrated London News, here
illustrations
for The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, here
for Strand Magazine Holmes stories, here
for A Study in Scarlet, here, here, here, here, here
inductive reasoning, here
Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Hume), here
Ironside, James, here
Irving, Henry, here
Irving, Washington, here
Ivanhoe (Scott), here
Jack the Ripper murders, here
James, Henry, here, here
James II (king of England), here
James IV (king of England), here
James V (king of England), here
Jane Eyre (Brontë), here
J. Arrowsmith (publisher), here
Jerome, Jerome K., here
“J. Habakuk Jephson’s Statement” (Doyle), here, here, here, here
“John Barrington Cowles” (Doyle), here, here
Johnson, Samuel, here
Journey to the Center of the Earth (Verne), here
Julie (Rousseau), here
J. W. Arrowsmith (publisher), here
The Katzenjammer Kids, here
Kenilworth (Scott), here
Kent, Constance, here
Kernahan, John Coulson, here
Kerr, Andrew, here
Kidnapped (Stevenson), here, here
Kipling, Rudyard, here, here
Kirton, William Henry, here
Lang, Andrew, here, here
The Leavenworth Case (Green), here, here
Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands (Victoria), here
Leech, John, here
Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan, here, here, here, here
Leonardo da Vinci, here
Lermontov, Mikhail, here
Lesage, Alain-René, here
Lestrade, Joseph Alexandre, here
libraries, here
Life of Goldsmith (Forster), here
Light (periodical), here
Lippincott’s Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, here, here
Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, here, here, here, here
literary agents, here
Littlejohn, Henry, here, here
Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper, here
Locker-Lampson, Frederick, here
Longmans, Green & Company, here, here
Longman’s Magazine, here
A Lost Name (Le Fanu), here, here, here
Lost Sir Massingberd (Payn), here
Louis Napoleon III, here
Lynch, Lawrence L., here
Lyra Elgantiarum (anthology), here
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, here, here, here, here, here
McClure, Samuel Sidney, here
Macdonald, John Hay Athole, here
Macintosh, Charles, here
McLevy, James, here
Madame Bovary (Flaubert), here
“Mademoiselle Scuderi” (Hoffmann), here
Manchester Guardian, here
The Man in the Iron Mask (Dumas), here
“The Man of the Crowd” (Poe), here
A Manual of the Operations of Surgery (Bell), here
“The Man with the Twisted Lip” (Doyle), here
Marie Celeste (ship), here
Marriage Bonds (Hamilton), here
Mary Celeste (ship), here, here
Mary Queen of Scots, here
Matheson, Robert, here, here
Mayson, Isabella Mary, here
Mayumba (ship), here
medical diagnoses
confirmation of, here
by observation and deduction, here, here, here, here
and James Syme, here
medicine, 19th Century advancements in, here
Merton, Clifford, here
Micah Clarke (Doyle), here, here, here, here, here, here
Middlemarch (Eliot), here
Milton, John, here
minim (unit of measure), here
Monsieur Lecoq (Gaboriau), here, here, here, here
The Moonstone (Collins), here, here
morbus strangulatorius. See diphtheria
More New Arabian Nights (Stevenson), here
Mormons, here, here, here
morphine, here
Motley, John Lothrop, here
Mr. Barnes of New York (Gunter), here
Mudie, Charles Edward, here, here
“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (Poe), here, here, here, here, here, here
Murger, Henri, here
Murrell, William, here, here
“My Friend the Murderer” (Doyle), here
“The Mystery of Marie Rogêt” (Poe), here, here
The Mystery of Orcival (Gaboriau), here, here, here, here
“The Mystery of Sasassa Valley” (Doyle), here
The Mystery of the Hansom Cab (Hume), here
The Mystery of the Wheelbarrow (parody), here
Napoleon Bonaparte, here, here
The Narrative of John Smith (Doyle), here
New Arabian Nights (Stevenson), here
Newnes, George, here, here, here
Nightingale, Florence, here
“The Noble Bachelor” (Doyle), here
No Name, Armadale (Collins), here
Norman-Neruda, Wilma, here
Not Wisely, but Too Well (Broughton), here
Novum Organum (Bacon), here
observation
and fictional detectives, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
and medical diagnoses, here, here, here, here, here
occupational labor, and stigma, here, here
Oliver Twist (Dickens), here
On Miracles and Modern Spiritualism (Wallace), here
On the Origin of Species (Darwin), here
opium, here
Orfila, Mathieu J. B., here
Our Trip to Blunderland (Macdonald), here
Paget, Henry, here
Paget, Sidney, here, here
Paget, Walter, here
pain relief, here, here
Parker, Hyde, here
“The Parson of Jackman’s Gulch” (Doyle), here
Pater, Walter, here
The Pavilion on the Links (Stevenson), here
Payn, James, here, here
Peel, Robert, here
Pelham (Bulwer-Lytton), here
Pendennis (Thackeray), here
Pepys, Samuel, here
periodical publication. See also specific periodicals
and length of Sherlock Holmes stories, here
recurring characters in, here
and structure of English fiction, here
photography, here, here, here
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wilde), here
Pike, William Roylston, here, here
Pitt, William the Elder, here
Poe, Edgar Allan
and development of detective fiction, here, here, here, here
and Auguste Dupin character, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
history of, here
influence on ACD, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
and “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” here, here, here, here, here, here
and narrator character, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
poisoning
ACD’s use of gelseminum, here, here, here, here
Robert Christison’s research on, here, here, here, here
Thomas Fraser’s research on, here, here, here
policing
and Bow Street Runners, here
development of detectives, here
and forensics, here
and public trust, here
and science, here, here, here
Portsmouth, England, here, here
Prince Otto (Stevenson), here
Publishers’ Circular (periodical), here
Pu
nch (magazine), here
“The Purloined Letter” (Poe), here, here, here
Pushkin, Alexander, here
pygmies, here
The Rambler (Johnson), here
Rawlinson, Robert, here
Reade, Charles, here, here, here, here
“The Red-Headed League” (Doyle), here
The Red Peril (Kernahan), here
Redway, George, here
Reid, Mayne, here, here, here
Reid, Wemyss, here
Richard Arbour (Payn), here
Richardson, Charles Sidney, here
Richardson, Samuel, here
Ringer, Sydney, here, here
“The Ring of Thoth” (Doyle), here
Robiquet, Pierre Jean, here
Rogers, Mary Cecelia, here
Roughing It (Twain), here
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, here
Rowlandson, Thomas, here
Royal Lunatic Asylum, here, here, here
See also Sunnyside
Ruskin, John, here
Rutherford, William, here
Ryan, Jimmy, here, here
Sala, George Augustus, here
Satires (Horace), here
The Scalp Hunters (Reid), here
“A Scandal in Bohemia” (Doyle), here, here
Scènes de la Vie de Bohème (Murger), here
science
and detective work, here, here, here
and fictional detectives, here, here, here, here, here, here
scientific method, here
Scotsman (periodical), here, here
Scott, Walter, here, here, here, here
Scribner’s (periodical), here
“Selecting a Ghost” (Doyle), here
Seneca, here
Shadowed by Three (Lynch), here
Sharp, Luke, here
Sherlock, James, here
Sherlock, Patrick, here, here
Sherlock, Thomas, here
Sherlock, William, here, here, here
Sherlock (as name), here, here
Sherlock Holmes character
ACD’s development of character, here, here, here, here, here, here
in ACD’s short stories, here
in A Study in Scarlet, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Joseph Bell as model for, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
deductive powers of, here, here, here, here
drug use, here
illustrations of, here, here, here, here, here, here
influence of Gaboriau’s Lecoq on, here, here
influence of Poe on, here, here, here, here, here, here
influence of Voltaire’s Zadig on, here, here
parodies of, here
as scientist, here, here, here, here
vanity of, here
Watson’s skepticism of, here, here, here, here, here
Siddons, Sarah, here
The Sign of Four (Doyle), here, here, here, here, here
Simms, William Gilmore, here
Simpson, James Young, here
Škoda, Joseph, here
Smith, Adam, here
Smith, George, here
Smith, George Murray, here
Smith, Joseph, here
Smith, W. H., here, here
Smyth, Charles Piazzi, here
Snow, William Roger, here
“A Sordid Affair” (Doyle), here
Speaker (periodical), here
“The Speckled Band” (Doyle), here
Sphere (periodical), here
spiritualism, here, here
Spring, Retlaw, here
SS Clan Macduff (ship), here
Stable, S. R., here
The Stark Munro Letters (Doyle), here
Steele, Joseph, here
Steele, Richard, here
Stephen, Leslie, here
Stevenson, Fanny Van de Grift, here
Stevenson, Robert, here
Stevenson, Robert Louis, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Stewart, Dugald, here
stigma, here, here
Stockton, Frank R., here
Stoddard, John Marshall, here, here, here
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, here, here
Strahan, Alexander, here
Strand Magazine, here, here, here, here, here
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Stevenson), here
Stretch, Matt, here, here
strychnine, here
Studies in Song (Swinburne), here
Studies in the History of the Renaissance (Pater), here
A Study in Scarlet (Doyle)
compared to The Sign of Four, here, here
difficulty publishing, here, here, here
first publication of, here, here, here
and flashback technique, here, here
illustrations for, here, here, here, here, here
and Mormons, here, here, here
naming of characters, here
Poe’s influence on, here
pre-publication advertising for, here
reissued as stand-alone book, here, here
reviews for, here, here, here
second publication of, here
Sherlock Holmes character in, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
three-act play adaption of, here
title of, here
Watson character in, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Sullivan, Arthur, here
Sunnyside, here, here, here, here
See also Royal Lunatic Asylum
“The Surgeon of Gaster Fell” (Doyle), here
Sussex Chronicle, here
Swift, Jonathan, here
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, here
Syme, James, here, here, here, here, here
Tale of a Tub (Swift), here
Tales from Many Sources (anthology), here
Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Poe), here
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (Poe), here
Tardieu, Auguste Ambroise, here
The Tatler (periodical), here
Temple Bar (periodical), here
A Terrible Temptation (Reade), here
Thackeray, William Makepeace, here, here, here, here
Thanet, Octave, here
“That Little Square Box” (Doyle), here
“That Veteran” (Doyle), here
thief-takers, here
Thin, James, here
Things as They Are (Godwin), here
Thomson, Charles West, here
Thomson, Charles Wyville, here
“Thou Art the Man” (Poe), here
Three Men in a Boat (Jerome), here
The Three Musketeers (Dumas), here
Through the Khyber Pass to Sherpore Camp and Cabul (Gregson), here
Tit-Bits (periodical), here
Tolstoy, Leo, here
Tom Jones (Fielding), here
Treasure Island (Stevenson), here, here, here
Trollope, Anthony, here, here
Trousseau, Armand, here
“The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth” (Broughton), here
Tully, William, here
Turner, William, here
Twain, Mark, here, here
Twenty Years After (Dumas), here
Two Legacies (Bettany), here
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe), here
Vanity Fair (Thackeray), here, here
Verne, Jules, here, here
The Vicar of Wakefield (Goldsmith), here
Vickery, Thomas Henry, here
The Vicomte of Bragelonne (Dumas), here
Victoria (queen of England), here, here, here
Vidocq, Eugène François, here, here, here
Villiers, George, here
Virgin and Child (Leonardo da Vinci), here
“The Voice of Science” (Doyle), here
Voltaire
influence on Poe, here
and monkeys as villains, here
and Zadig character, here, here, here, here, here, here
Wakley, Thomas, here
Wallace, Alfred Russel, here, here
Waller, Bryan Charles, here, here
War and Peace (Tolstoy), here
Ward, Maria, here
Ward, Lock & Company (publisher), here, here, here, here, here, here
Watson, James, here
Watson, Patrick Heron, here
Watson, Thomas, here, here
Watson, William, here
Watt, Alexander Pollock, here, here
The Way We Live Now (Trollope), here
Welden, Elmore “Elmo,” here
Wells, Horace, here
Westminster Gazette, here, here
Whicher, Jonathan “Jack,” here
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill, here
Wide World Magazine, here
Wilde, Oscar, here, here
The Wild Huntress (Reid), here
“William Wilson” (Poe), here
Wills, Henry, here
Wilson, Patrick, here
The Woman in White (Collins), here
Women Writers (Hamilton), here
Young, Brigham, here
Young Folks Paper, here
Zadig, or, The Book of Fate (Voltaire), here
Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle (Darwin), here
A Note on the Author
Michael Sims is the author of The Story of Charlotte’s Web, which the Washington Post, Boston Globe, and other venues chose as a Best Book of the year; Adam’s Navel, which was a New York Times Notable Book and a Library Journal Best Science Book; The Adventures of Henry Thoreau; and other books.
He edits The Connoisseur’s Collection series of Victorian anthologies, including The Dead Witness (detective stories), and also edited The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime and The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime. His Sherlockian pastiche “The Memoirs of Silver Blaze” appears in the Anthony Award–winning anthology In the Company of Sherlock Holmes.
His writing has appeared in the New York Times, New Republic, Chronicle of Higher Education, the Washington Post, the Baker Street Journal, and many other periodicals.
He lives in western Pennsylvania with his wife and son.
Plate Section
Born in 1859 in Edinburgh, Scotland, young Arthur Doyle returned here after boarding school and attended medical school, where he met Joseph Bell—who would, a decade later, serve as Arthur’s real-life inspiration for Sherlock Holmes. Here the twelfth-century Castle towers above the Grassmarket, which had been a public trading site for centuries. UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN
Arthur revered and idolized his mother, Irish-born Mary Foley Doyle, who read to the family often and introduced Arthur to French literature. Her husband’s intemperance (and later his incarceration) left Mary in charge of the family during Arthur’s childhood and early adulthood. This portrait is by her husband’s brother, Richard “Dickie” Doyle, an illustrator who achieved greater success than his brother Charles.