Publisher's Synopsis
Tales of Terror and Mystery Arthur Conan Doyle Table of Contents 1.The Horror of the Heights 2.The Leather Funnel 3.The New Catacomb 4.The Case of Lady Sannox 5.The Terror of Blue John Gap 6.The Brazilian Cat 7.The Lost Special 8.The Beetle-Hunter 9.The Man with the Watches 10.The Japanned Box 11.The Black Doctor 12.The Jew's Breastplate Traditionally, the canon of Sherlock Holmes consists of the 56 short stories and four novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In this context, the term "canon" is an attempt to distinguish between Doyle's original works and subsequent works by other authors using the same characters. Since the author's death, professional and amateur Holmesians have discussed endlessly the expansion of this canon, to include other works by Doyle, including works in other media, into the current complete adventures. Rumours have always surrounded lost works, and in recent years further investigations have revealed more to the traditionally collected canon. As there exists no definitive body to argue what is, and what is not canon beyond the already established novels and stories, it is unlikely that any piece, no matter how good its claim to be "canonical" will ever be popularly received into published versions of the Complete Sherlock Holmes. However, as many as eighteen works have been cited as possible entrants. These works include plays, poems, essays on the character, and even short stories. Three works which speak most on this subject were published in the 1980s: Sherlock Holmes: The Published Apocrypha edited by Jack Tracy, The Final Adventures of Sherlock Holmes edited by Peter Haining and The Uncollected Sherlock Holmes, edited by Richard Lancelyn Green. These works discussed several titles and their place in the canon. More recently, the final volume of Leslie Klinger's Sherlock Holmes Reference Library contained the Apocrypha. All of these works have at least slightly different contents.
