Stanford University is located between San Francisco and San Jose in California, USA and is one of the world’s leading teaching and research universities. Its Victorian Reading Project has produced facsimiles of serialised 19th-century novels and stories from Stanford University Library’s Special Collections, including some Holmes stories published in The Strand Magazine.
Discovering Sherlock Holmes is the title of this section of Stanford University website that included fifteen of the short stories and The Hound of the Baskervilles (in nine parts). Each story has notes and there is a general introduction and bibliography. These were produced in 2006 and 2007 and no more have been produced since then although the introduction hints that more may be produced at some time in the future. So far no more have appeared.
The stories include the following (each story has a link to the PDF on the Stanford website and to the notes for each story):
- The Empty House – notes
- Silver Blaze – notes
- The Musgrave Ritual – notes
- The Reigate Squire – notes
- The Greek Interpreter – notes
- Charles Augustus Milverton – notes
- The Abbey Grange – notes
- The Second Stain – notes
- The Bruce-Partington Plans – notes
- The Devil’s Foot – notes
- The Dying Detective – notes
- His Last Bow – notes
- A Scandal In Bohemia – notes
- The Speckled Band – notes
- The Final Problem – notes
- The Hound of The Baskervilles (Part 1 – notes, 2 – notes, 3 – notes, 4 – notes, 5 – notes, 6 – notes, 7 – notes, 8 – notes, 9 – notes)
The notes provide maps, images and items of interest about each story.
The PDFs of the stories are presented with a cover, as they would have done, as if each story had been produced as an issue of the The Strand Magazine – see the example on the left. The stories themselves are presented with the actual pages as they would have appeared in The Strand Magazine. The PDFs take a little while to download as the links are to the Stanford website.
There is also a comprehensive bibliography containing references to books by Arthur Conan Doyle, references about Arthur Conan Doyle, other print and web sources.
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