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Arthur Conan Doyle Collection

Search the Arthur Conan Doyle Collection

One of the world’s largest research collections devoted to Arthur Conan Doyle’s life and works.

Many of our 25,000+ items relate to Doyle’s most famous character, Sherlock Holmes. It also has a range of Doyle’s fiction (adventure, sci-fi, horror) and non-fiction (spiritualism, true crime, history, issues of the day). Includes:

manuscripts and correspondences

various editions and translations

parodies and pastiches

biographies, criticisms and bibliographies

periodicals by Sherlock Holmes groups

stage and screen adaptations

photographs

collectables (posters, original art, memorabilia and newspaper clippings)

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Digitized items Some items are available on the library's Digital Archive. View digitized items

Plan your visit

Using the collection

All welcome! Our Arthur Conan Doyle Room, styled as Sherlock Holmes’ study, has books you can pull off the shelves and read.

To access other items, you simply need to fill out a brief form and show one piece of identification or your library card when you arrive.

Items are non-circulating. You can view them in the Marilyn & Charles Baillie Special Collections Centre.

Location

Toronto Reference Library (789 Yonge Street). 5th floor. Inside the Marilyn & Charles Baillie Special Collections Centre.

Hours

Monday 9:00 am to 8:30 pm Tuesday 9:00 am to 8:30 pm Wednesday 9:00 am to 8:30 pm Thursday 9:00 am to 8:30 pm Friday 9:00 am to 8:30 pm Saturday 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Sunday 1:30 pm to 5:00 pm

Class or group visits

Contact us to schedule talks and tours for groups and classes.

Contact

416-393-7158

trlspc@tpl.ca