"Crime is common, logic is rare"
A selective list of literary criticism for Arthur Conan Doyle, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Web Pages
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Berdan, Marshall S. "Haji Holmes or You, Too, Have Been in Afghanistan, We Perceive." The Baker Street Journal, Vol. 52, No. 4
Calamai, Peter. "It's Their Birthday Too--Yeah." Historical events in 1854, the year of Holmes's birth. The Baker Street Journal, Vol. 53, No. 4
Calamai, Peter. "Despatches from the Moor: Newspapers and The Hound of the Baskervilles." The Baker Street Journal, Vol. 51, No. 4
Cooke, Catherine. "Mrs. Hudson: A Legend in Her Own Lodging House." The Baker Street Journal, Vol. 55, No. 2
Curtis, Donald E. "The Lion's Mane": a Topical Review. The Baker Street Journal, Vol. 56, No. 4
Dahlinger, S.E. "Some Observations upon the Segregation of the Bea (sic)." On "Shoscombe Old Place," the last of the cases of Sherlock Holmes reported by Dr. Watson. The Baker Street Journal, Vol. 56, No. 3
Fetherston, Sonia. "Shoscombe Through the Looking Glass." On the possible influence of Lewis Carroll on "Shoscombe Old Place." The Baker Street Journal, Vol. 56, No. 1
Hill, Gideon. "The Richest Man in Horseracing." On "Silver Blaze." The Baker Street Journal, Vol. 55, No. 3
Hyder, William. "Holmes's Busy Day." ["Beryl Coronet"] The Baker Street Journal, Vol. 51, No. 2
Jensen, Jens Byskov. "A Murder Was Committed - But Where?" On "The Bruce-Partington Plans." The Baker Street Journal, Vol. 54, No. 4
Jensen, Jens Byskov "The Avant-Garde Sherlock Holmes." The Baker Street Journal, Vol. 53, No. 1
Klinger, Leslie S. "What Do We Really Know About Sherlock Holmes and John H. Watson?" The Baker Street Journal, Vol. 54, No. 3
Klinger, Leslie S. A review of Klinger's The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Volumes I & II (Norton, 2004). Reviewed by Brendan Wolfe in January magazine
Merrill, David W. "Home, James" - A Case of Domestic Identity. On "The Man with the Twisted Lip." The Baker Street Journal, Vol. 53, No. 2
Meyer, Nicholas. "Seven Per-Cent at 30: Memories and Reflections." Meyer's reflections 30 years after the publication of his The Seven-Per-Cent Solution. The Baker Street Journal, Vol. 54, No. 2
Moss, Robert A. "Old Frankland: A Case of Identity." [Hound of the Baskervilles]The Baker Street Journal, Vol. 52, No. 1
Nydell, Margaret. "Sherlock Holmes in Khartoum." The Baker Street Journal, Vol. 51, No. 3
Radford, John. "Dr. Watson to 1878." The Baker Street Journal, Vol. 55, No. 1
Redmond Christopher. "A Study in Sin: Religious Hypocrisy and Fanatacism in (and out of) A Study in Scarlet." The Baker Street Journal, Vol. 54, No. 1
Roden, Barbara. "The Coming of the Fairies: An alternative view of the episode of The Cottingley Fairies." Orig. pub. in the Sherlock Holmes Detective Magazine
Roden, Christopher. Arthur Conan Doyle: A Brief Biographical Study. The Arthur Conan Doyle Society, Ashcroft, British Columbia
Roden, Christopher. The daughter of Arthur Conan Doyle, the 84-year-old Dame Jean Conan Doyle, talks about her father in an interview. The Arthur Conan Doyle Society, Ashcroft, British Columbia
Roosevelt, Tweed. "My First Meeting with Sherlock Holmes." The Baker Street Journal, Vol. 52, No. 3
Ross, Michael. "Footprints of a Gigantic Hund." On the reception of The Hound of the Baskervilles in Germany. The Baker Street Journal, Vol. 53, No. 3
Shreffler, Philip A. "Watson's Weird Tales: Horror in the Sherlockian Canon." The Baker Street Journal, Vol. 56, No. 2
Solberg, Andrew. "Sherlock Holmes: Anti-Semite?" The Baker Street Journal, Vol. 51 No. 1
Stock, Randall. "The Trail of the Semi-Solitary Manuscript." On the manuscript of "The Solitary Cyclist." The Baker Street Journal, Vol. 55, No. 4
"Discovering Sherlock Holmes," an educational site from Stanford Univ., contains short articles about Doyle and the historical setting, and downloadable copies of many Sherlock Holmes stories
An introduction to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle from the BBC, includes links to articles on British crime
A special BBC feature on Arthur Conan Doyle
"Sherlock Holmes: Teaching English Through Detective Fiction," by Pamela J. Greene
An informative online exhibit on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's career and writings, from the City of Westminster Libraries
An extensive web site on Sherlock Holmes by Sherlockian Chris Redmond
The Baker Street Journal: An Irregular Quarterly of Sherlockiana, generously publishes a sampling of its articles online [indexed here]
"The Official Web Site of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Literary Estate," includes introductory articles on Doyle's works by unnamed authors. Also provides a primary bibliography which covers Doyle's Sherlock Holmes fiction, Professor Challenger stories, Plays, Pamphlets, other Fiction, Verse, Works on War and the Army, Fairies, the Occult and Spiritualism
Web site of The Sherlock Holmes Society of London, "a literary and social Society, publishing a scholarly Journal and occasional papers, and holding meetings, dinners and excursions."
Newspaper account and photo of Arthur Conan Doyle in Argonne during the first world war, from "The Great War in a Different Light."
Information about the Arthur Conan Doyle Collection at the Toronto Public Library
Information on 177 Sherlock Holmes Societies around the world and the Sherlockians who belong to them
Klinger, Leslie S. "Sifting the Writings upon the Writings." Recommended primary and critical resources for the Sherlock Holmes canon from the author of The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes. The Baker Street Journal, Vol. 52, No. 2
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