The Adventure of the Gloria Scott

the long version

"The Adventure of the Gloria Scott ", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. It is chronologically the earliest case in Sherlock Holmes canon. This story is related mainly by Holmes rather than Watson, and is the first case to which Holmes applied his powers of deduction, having treated it as a mere hobby until this time. This is one of the two Sherlock Holmes stories in which a protagonist is haunted by an old acquaintance for an old crime. The other is "The Boscombe Valley Mystery". It is also one of his many stories that deal with the fate of characters who return to England after having spent time abroad in the colonies of the British Empire. ---------- Also contained in: - [Annotated Sherlock Holmes. 1/2](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518438W) - [Bedside Conan Doyle](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14929890W) - [Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262598W/Memoirs_of_Sherlock_Holmes) - [Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19842545W) - [Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. 1/2](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL18188831W) - [Mysterious Adventures of Sherlock Holmes](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262471W) - [Sherlock Holmes: His Most Famous Mysteries](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14930414W) - [Sherlock Holmes Reader](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14930658W) - [Treasury of Sherlock Holmes](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262548W)