A collection of writings and illustrations about the Sherlock Holmes mysteries, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Holmes fans, and the culture that grew up around the stories.

This lavishly illustrated history features rare covers and classic illustrations, revealing how the crucial the artists were to establishing the identity and popularity of the genre and its most famous charactrs.

For many years it has been widely accepted that the complete canon of Sherlock Holmes's adventures by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle consisted of fifty-six stories and four novels. But there have also been persistent rumors of a number of other items that Conan Doyle wrote about his world-famous detective and which, for one reason or another, have never been included in the collected works. Now these missing items, including stories, plays and poems, have...