The Adventure of the Gloria Scott (Annotated) - a Sherlock Holmes short story(1893)

Arthur Conan Doyle

"The Adventure of the 'Gloria Scott'” is a detective short story written by Arthur Conan Doyle (1865-1930). First published in 1893, it tells one of the best-known and most intriguing adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

It is also one of the earliest tales in the life of Holmes. The case relates to his friend, Victor Trevor. "He was the only friend I made during the two years I was at college." Victor had invited Sherlock to his family home in Norfolk for the college holidays, and it was there that our soon-to-be detective heard the tragic story of the sailing ship, a freight-carrying barque, the "Gloria Scott."

This edition also contains a choice of Conan Doyle’s best aphorisms and an essay on the invention of the Sherlock Holmes’ character written by Harold Emery Jones (1875-1909) in 1904.