Steven Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the characters Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John H. Watson, wrote 56 short stories and 4 novels featuring the great private detective and his loyal sidekick. Sherlock Holmes fans and scholars refer to these 60 stories the canon. All of the novels and almost all of the short stories are narrated by Dr.

The Sherlock Holmes canon, authored by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, contains 4 novels and 56 short stories. The short stories are grouped in 5 collections. Doyle generally excelled at the short story format. He once explained that it took as much effort to concoct the plot of a short story as it did a novel. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes collects the first 12 Sherlock Holmes short stories into 1 volume.