The first scholarly edition of The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes including a detailed introduction, an essay on the text, a textual apparatus and explanatory notes

First new annotated edition for twenty-five years
Detailed notes explore the historical and biographical references within each story
Definitive textual apparatus collating the original magazine stories, the first book edition and Conan Doyle's author's edition of 1903
Ideal for students and scholars interested in Arthur Conan Doyle, detective fiction, popular fiction, empire fiction, late-Victorian magazine culture and British authorship

This exciting volume is the first scholarly edition of The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Includes the only current textual apparatus collated from different iterations of the stories along with a detailed introduction and an essay on the text based on contemporary scholarship.