The complete canon

From this page you can read or download the complete Sherlock Holmes. I've built the files below from the now copyright-free texts as a fun excerise in order to learn about LaTeX, Typesetting and Typography in general.
Please note that since copyright laws may vary greatly from country to country, you should spend a minute glancing over the next section in order to determine if it's at all legal for yourself to download the texts into the country you're currently accessing this page from.

Copyright issues

Whether you may download these texts is decided by your local copyright regulation laws.
> United States
If U.S. copyright law applies to you, you may download neither the “Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes”—and the short stories contained in it—nor “The complete Canon” at the beginning of the list (since it also contains the case-book). You might want to take a look at the “U.S. edition” canon instead: This contains everything except the case-book. By the way: For the case-book, the copyright will expire between 2016 and 2023 (see sherlockian.net).
> Europe
For all countries in the European Union, copyright seems to expire 70 years after the author's death, thus it should be legal to download all the texts from there (see the Online Books Page).
> Canada
The copyrights expired 1980 (see sherlockian.net).
If in doubt, please consult the Online Books Page. It contains a lot of references and examples, and a mass of links to copyright information for many countries.
File format selection
Select PDF for printing, HTML for on-screen-reading or ASCII Text for other purposes.
Choose from DIN-A4 or Letter paper size.
1-sided output format has the page number always in the same position, 2-sided output alternates between left and right side of the page.
Note:
If you're printing the stories using Adobe's Acrobat, you should try to set the “Page Scaling” option to “None” in order to have a correctly scaled layout.
The CanonPDF, DIN-A4, 1-sided
The Complete Canon4,190,604 Bytes
The Canon — U.S. edition3,681,780 Bytes
CollectionsPDF, DIN-A4, 1-sided
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes745,699 Bytes
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes645,542 Bytes
The Return of Sherlock Holmes777,627 Bytes
His Last Bow518,168 Bytes
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes613,631 Bytes
NovelsPDF, DIN-A4, 1-sided
A Study In Scarlet351,182 Bytes
The Sign of the Four336,677 Bytes
The Hound of the Baskervilles435,123 Bytes
The Valley of Fear428,878 Bytes
Short stories
The Adventures of Sherlock HolmesPDF, DIN-A4, 1-sided
A Scandal in Bohemia116,469 Bytes
The Red-Headed League110,483 Bytes
A Case of Identity94,620 Bytes
The Boscombe Valley Mystery120,993 Bytes
The Five Orange Pips108,751 Bytes
The Man with the Twisted Lip104,411 Bytes
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle109,590 Bytes
The Adventure of the Speckled Band108,177 Bytes
The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb109,938 Bytes
The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor112,213 Bytes
The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet108,883 Bytes
The Adventure of the Copper Beeches115,160 Bytes
The Memoirs of Sherlock HolmesPDF, DIN-A4, 1-sided
Silver Blaze110,281 Bytes
Yellow Face85,161 Bytes
The Stockbroker's Clerk102,032 Bytes
The “Gloria Scott”100,162 Bytes
The Musgrave Ritual94,553 Bytes
The Reigate Puzzle98,667 Bytes
The Crooked Man82,302 Bytes
The Resident Patient95,057 Bytes
The Greek Interpreter105,092 Bytes
The Naval Treaty126,915 Bytes
The Final Problem97,195 Bytes
The Return of Sherlock HolmesPDF, DIN-A4, 1-sided
The Empty House109,386 Bytes
The Norwood Builder119,272 Bytes
The Dancing Men106,693 Bytes
The Solitary Cyclist101,189 Bytes
The Priory School123,267 Bytes
Black Peter99,368 Bytes
Charles Augustus Milverton95,289 Bytes
The Six Napoleons107,688 Bytes
The Three Students89,275 Bytes
The Golden Pince-Nez106,197 Bytes
The Missing Three-Quarter107,782 Bytes
The Abbey Grange110,092 Bytes
The Second Stain120,881 Bytes
His Last BowPDF, DIN-A4, 1-sided
Wisteria Lodge142,111 Bytes
The Cardboard Box112,718 Bytes
The Red Circle112,991 Bytes
The Bruce-Partington Plans119,539 Bytes
The Dying Detective87,938 Bytes
Lady Frances Carfax102,262 Bytes
The Devil's Foot107,949 Bytes
His Last Bow91,809 Bytes
The Case-Book of Sherlock HolmesPDF, DIN-A4, 1-sided
The Illustrious Client110,759 Bytes
The Blanched Soldier98,186 Bytes
The Mazarin Stone84,640 Bytes
The Three Gables97,919 Bytes
The Sussex Vampire89,459 Bytes
The Three Garridebs94,807 Bytes
Thor Bridge111,573 Bytes
The Creeping Man90,978 Bytes
The Lion's Mane100,079 Bytes
The Veiled Lodger69,095 Bytes
Shoscombe Old Place80,399 Bytes
The Retired Colourman91,570 Bytes

Change Log

DateVersionDescription
January 28, 20081.12
Fixed PDF-specific table of contents, used Yannis Haralambous' baroque initials from the yfonts package for the story openings.
September 29, 20071.11
Corrected an error in CROO and added the version number to the small print after the title page.
September 20, 20071.10
Added spacing between subsequent quotes in the PDFs, fixed typos in GLOR and REIG and a quote in MUSG and superfluous empty paragraphs.
September 10, 20071.9
Corrected typos in “The Yellow Face” and “The Stockbroker's Clerk”.
September 9, 20071.8
Switched to old style figures and fixed a typo in “Silver Blaze”.
August 30, 20071.7
Fixed quoting in “The Abbey Grange”.
August 18, 20071.6
Fixed list in the HTML issue of “The Five Orange Pips” and a superfluous dot in “The Man with the Twisted Lip”.
August 12, 20071.5
Added forgotten left-quote in “The Red-Headed League”.
July 23, 20071.4
Fixed letter-layout in a number of places and re-built this index webpage, which now allows much easier access to the 2-sided variants.
June 11, 20071.3
Corrected a typo in “The Devil's Foot”.
June 10, 20071.2
Re-built the print-space in the letter-sized PDFs to better suit the paper format. Added two-sided PDF output in the respective A4- and Letter-specific directories, not on the print story index yet.
June 7, 20071.1
Added plain text output, re-built the index web page and archived all changes pre-dating this year.
June 3, 20071.0
Finally finished converting the last texts, did the proofreading, got rid of the last formatting issues and set up the new table of contents. This marks the end of the text conversion and the release of the the first plain collection.
April 14, 2007
Thoroughly proof-read all the current 48 out of 60 stories, eliminating approximately a hundred spelling or formatting errors in the process. Now, only two things remain: Adapting “The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes” and creating a corrected table of contents.