The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes is a short story

Short story

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 collection written by Adrian Conan Doyle

Adrian Conan Doyle

Adrian Malcolm Conan Doyle was the youngest son of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his second wife Jean, Lady Conan Doyle. He had two siblings, a sister, Jean, and a brother, Denis....

 and John Dickson Carr

John Dickson Carr

John Dickson Carr was an American author of detective stories, who also published under the pen names Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson and Roger Fairbairn....

, first published in 1954.

The stories contained in the collection are:

• "The Adventure of the Seven Clocks
  The Adventure of the Seven Clocks
  The Adventure of the Seven Clocks is a Sherlock Holmes story by Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr. The story was published in the 1954 collection, The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes....
  
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• "The Adventure of the Gold Hunter
  The Adventure of the Gold Hunter
  The Adventure of the Gold Hunter is a Sherlock Holmes murder mystery by Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr. The story was published in the 1954 collection, The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes....
  
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• "The Adventure of the Wax Gamblers
  The Adventure of the Wax Gamblers
  The Adventure of the Wax Gamblers by John Dickson Carr is a Sherlock Holmes story. The story was published in the 1954 collection, The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes, a joint enterprise of Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr.- Plot :...
  
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• "The Adventure of the Highgate Miracle
  The Adventure of the Highgate Miracle
  "The Adventure of the Highgate Miracle" is a Sherlock Holmes mystery story by John Dickson Carr. The story was published in the 1954 collection, The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes, a joint enterprise of Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr.-Plot:...
  
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• "The Adventure of the Black Baronet
  The Adventure of the Black Baronet
  The Adventure of the Black Baronet is a Sherlock Holmes murder mystery written by Adrian Conan Doyle. The story was published in the 1954 collection, The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes, a joint enterprise of John Dickson Carr and Adrian Conan Doyle....
  
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• "The Adventure of the Sealed Room
  The Adventure of the Sealed Room
  The Adventure of the Sealed Room is a Sherlock Holmes murder mystery by Adrian Conan Doyle. The story was published in the 1954 collection, The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes, a joint enterprise of Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr....
  
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• "The Adventure of Foulkes Rath"
• "The Adventure of the Abbas Ruby
  The Adventure of the Abbas Ruby
  "The Adventure of the Abbas Ruby" is a Sherlock Holmes mystery by Adrian Conan Doyle, the youngest son of Arthur Conan Doyle, the Sherlock Holmes creator. The story was published in the 1954 collection, The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes.-Plot:...
  
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• "The Adventure of the Dark Angels
  The Adventure of the Dark Angels
  The Adventure of the Dark Angels is a Sherlock Holmes murder mystery by Adrian Conan Doyle. The story was published in the 1954 collection, The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes.- Plot :...
  
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• "The Adventure of the Two Women
  The Adventure of the Two Women
  "The Adventure of the Two Women" is a Sherlock Holmes crime story by Adrian Conan Doyle. The story was published in the 1954 collection, The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes.Holmes is called upon to save the widow of a distinguished family from shame...
  
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• "The Adventure of the Deptford Horror
  The Adventure of the Deptford Horror
  The Adventure of the Deptford Horror is a Sherlock Holmes story by Adrian Conan Doyle. The story was published in the 1954 collection, The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes....
  
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• "The Adventure of the Red Widow
  The Adventure of the Red Widow
  The Adventure of the Red Widow is a short Sherlock Holmes murder mystery by Adrian Conan Doyle. The story was published in the 1954 collection, The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes....
  
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As an early and rather authoritative example of Sherlockian pastiche - the collaborators being the son and the authorised biographer of Holmes's creator - there is much to interest collectors.

The collaboration was not smooth, as Douglas G.Greene relates in John Dickson Carr: The Man Who Explained Miracles. There is some doubt about who wrote what - though at times Carr's highly recognisable style breaks through the convention of pastiching the original Conan Doyle stories.

Parallels to 'canonical' stories are uncomfortably close sometimes. The stated intention of expanding the tantalising references Doyle made to unwritten cases did not work out, and the new stories often have to abridge those references, or quote them selectively, or explain them away.

In 1963 John Murray published two paperback volumes which divided the stories into The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes by Adrian Conan Doyle and More Exploits of Sherlock Holmes by Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr. The first title contains the last six stories listed above, the second the first six. (Greene - cited above - suggests that authorship may be more complex.)