The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle - The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes is the final set of twelve (out of a total of fifty-six) Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in the Strand Magazine between October 1921 and April 1927.The first edition of The Case-Book, published by John Murray in 1927, does not present the stories in the order in which they were published.