Writings of Sherlock Holmes, compiled by Vincent Starrett in The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes:
- Upon the Distinction Between the Ashes of the Various Tobaccos
- Upon the Tracing of Footsteps
- Upon the Influence of a Trade Upon the Form of the Hand
- The Book of Life
- On the Typewriter and Its Relation to Crime
- Upon the Dating of Old Documents
- Of Tattoo Marks
- On Secret Writings
- On the Surface Anatomy of the Human Ear
- Early English Charters
- On the Polyphonic Motets of Lassus
- Chaldean Roots in the Ancient Cornish Language
- Malingering
- Upon the Uses of Dogs in the Work of the Detective
- Practical Handbook of Bee Culture, With Some Observations Upon the Segregation of the Queen
- The Blanched Soldier
- The Lion’s Mane
- Sigerson
- The Whole Art of Detection
- Translations
In June 1955, a document purporting to be Holmes’ last will and testament was published by Nathan L. Bengis in the London Mystery Magazine. In it, Holmes leaves “to the authorities of Scotland Yard, one copy of each of my trifling monographs on crime detection, unless happily they shall feel they have outgrown the need for the elementary suggestions of an amateur detective.”