Preface - Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes: Biographical and Critical Contexts - PART ONE THE MAJOR SHERLOCK HOLMES STORIES - From a Study in Scarlet (chapters 1 and 2) - A Scandal in Bohemia - The Red-Headed League - A Case of Identity - The Boscombe Valley Mystery - The Man with the Twisted Lip - The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle - The Adventure of the Speckled Band - Silver Blaze - The Musgrove Ritual - The Final Problem - The Adventure of the Empty House - The Adventure of the Dancing Men - The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton - The Adventure of the Second Stain - PART TWO CONTEMPORARY CRITICAL ESSAYS - Sherlock Holmes:The Series; M.Priestman - Reading for the Plot; P.Brooks - Sherlock Holmes:Ethics, Logic and the Mask; G.P.Caprettini - The Recoil of the Speckled Band:Detective Story and Detective Discourse; J.A.Hodgson - Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Dancing Men and Women; A.Fowler - The Case of the Great Detective; S.Knight - Deconstructing the Text: Sherlock Holmes; C.Belsey - 'The Speckled Band':The Construction of Woman in a Popular Text of Empire; R.Hennessy & R.Mohan - Detecting the Beggar:Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry Mayhew, and 'The Man with a Twisted Lip'; A.Jaffe - Appendices - A Chronology of Arthur Conan Doyle - Doyle's Favourite Sherlock Holmes Stories - Sherlock Holmes on Film - Select Bibliography - Index