Sherlock Holmes — The Complete Canon — Book Club Kit

🔍 The printable companion for book clubs reading Sherlock Holmes — The Complete Canon: all four novels and fifty-six short stories in one season of meetings, with the famous stories as the spine.

Inside the kit (32 pages, US Letter, print as many copies as your group needs):

• A four-meeting reading schedule — the early novels and Adventures; the Memoirs and the Hound; the Return and The Valley of Fear; His Last Bow and the Case-Book — with hosting guidance: read a deduction scene aloud and pause before the reveal, and keep the fair-play rule (no solution the reader couldn't reach from Watson's clues)

• A famous-stories fast track — fourteen essential cases for clubs that can't read all sixty

• Who's Who — thirteen entries, from Holmes and Watson to Moriarty, Irene Adler, and Toby the tracking dog

• The complete canon table — all 60 works with their collections and first-publication dates

• The story behind this edition — the Strand phenomenon, the death at Reichenbach and the return, and how this edition was verified, including the two famous traps: "Elementary, my dear Watson" occurs zero times in the canon, and the word "deerstalker" never appears at all

• The five explainers, condensed: the science of deduction and Victorian forensics · the Strand and Sidney Paget · Holmes's London · the chronology puzzle · Doyle against Holmes

• A short life of Arthur Conan Doyle

• 53 discussion questions — for every novel and collection, plus a whole-canon set, spoiler-fenced by meeting

• "Spot the Story" — attribute five famous passages to their cases and speakers

• Ruled notes pages

The companion ebook, Sherlock Holmes — The Complete Canon, is also available in this store.

Companion Classics, edited by Horace Harriott Jr. The canon is public domain in the United States; all companion material is original to this edition. This is an independent edition, not affiliated with any estate.