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Sherlock Holmes Books in Order

by Arthur Conan DoyleLiterature & Fiction

9 books from A Study in Scarlet (1887) to The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (2012). Rated 4.6 across 13,675 listener reviews.

Reading order

  1. A Study in Scarlet

    Book 1 1887 4.6 (2.5k)

    Originally named A Tangled Skein, this is the first Sherlock Holmes story....

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  2. The Sign of Four

    Book 2 1889 4.2 (2.1k)

    Sherlock Holmes and his companion Watson are involved in an exotic tale of stolen treasure, secret oaths and murder....

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  3. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    Book 3 2006 4.7 (2.6k)

    Scandal, treachery and crime are rife in Old London Town. A king blackmailed by his mistress, dark dealings in opium dens, stolen jewels, a missing bride....

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  4. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

    Book 4 1999 4.6 (770)

    The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes are overshadowed by the event with which they close - the meeting of the great detective and Moriarty, the Napoleon of Crime.

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  5. Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles

    Book 5 1999 4.7 (3.7k)

    Could the sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville have been caused by the gigantic ghostly hound....

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  6. The Return of Sherlock Holmes

    Book 6 1903 4.7 (734)

    Three years have passed since Sherlock Holmes and his nemesis Moriarty vanished into the abyss of the Reichenbach Falls.....

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  7. The Valley of Fear

    Book 7 1914 4.4 (554)

    In The Valley of Fear, the great detective Sherlock Holmes has been summoned by a coded message to the house of a man called Douglas. But he and his faithful friend Dr.

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  8. Sherlock Holmes: His Last Bow

    Book 8 2004 4.6 (561)

    This collection of stories continues the adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle’s much-loved fictional detective....

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  9. The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes

    Book 9 2012 4.6 (195)

    Clive Merrison stars as Holmes with Michael Williams as Watson in these twelve adventures from the unique, fully dramatised BBC canon of Conan Doyle's short stories and novels.

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About this reading order

Books are listed in the series' own numbering, which for Sherlock Holmes is also the best order to read them in. Years are first publication where we could confirm it, and otherwise the first audiobook release.

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