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Title: The Beetle Hunter Title Record # 603229
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Date: 1898-06-00
Type: SHORTFICTION [non-genre]
Length: short story
Series: Round the Fire
Series Number: 1
Language: English
Note: Non-speculative mystery story (one of Doyle's many mysteries in which the perpetrator is a madman). First published in the Strand Magazine, June 1898.
Synopsis: "An unemployed doctor answers an advert in the Standard and goes for an interview with Lord Linchfield who requires a strong man with a good knowledge of beetles. They go... to Delamere Court, home of tall eccentric beetle expert Sir Thomas Rossiter...." (Books & Boots) The events of the first night of their stay demonstrate why the doctor was summoned.
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Other Titles

Variant Titles Translations
Year Title
1898 The Beetle-Hunter
1898 The Story of the Beetle-Hunter [as by A. Conan Doyle]
1925 The Beetle-Hunter [as by A. Conan Doyle]
1978 The Beetle Hunter [as by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]
Year Language Title
1911Translated by Louis Labat, first in Arthur Conan Doyle's collection Du mystérieux au tragique, Pierre Lafitte, Idéal Bibliothèque #29, 1911.
French Le chasseur de scarabées
1981Translated by João Guilherme B. Lincke
Portuguese O Caçador de Besouros
1983Translated by Bernd Seligmann
German Der Käfersammler
2018Translated by Sandra Keli F. V. dos Santos
Portuguese O caçador de besouros

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Round the Fire Stories 1908-00-00 Arthur Conan Doyle The McClure Company     3+
356
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Round the Fire Stories 1908-00-00 Arthur Conan Doyle Smith, Elder & Co.  
6/-?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
382
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Tales of Terror and Mystery 1922-00-00 Arthur Conan Doyle John Murray  
2/-?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
310
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
The Conan Doyle Stories 1929-00-00 Arthur Conan Doyle John Murray  
20/-?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
xii+
1201
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
The Conan Doyle Stories 1939-00-00 Arthur Conan Doyle John Murray     xii+
1201
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
The Conan Doyle Stories 1940-00-00 Arthur Conan Doyle John Murray     xii+
1201
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
The Conan Doyle Stories 1945-00-00 Arthur Conan Doyle John Murray     xii+
1201
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
The Conan Doyle Stories 1949-00-00 Arthur Conan Doyle John Murray  
7/6?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
xii+
1201
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
The Conan Doyle Stories 1951-00-00 Arthur Conan Doyle John Murray     xii+
1201
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
The Conan Doyle Stories 1956-00-00 Arthur Conan Doyle John Murray     xii+
1201
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
The Conan Doyle Stories 1960-00-00 Arthur Conan Doyle John Murray     xii+
1201
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Round the Fire Stories 1991-05-00 Arthur Conan Doyle Chronicle Books 0-87701-883-9
$9.95?$: US dollar
226
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll Alex Laurant  
Round the Fire Stories 2015-12-22 Arthur Conan Doyle MysteriousPress.com / Open Road 978-1-4804-5343-2
$0.99?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll  
Round the Fire Stories 2017-02-04 Arthur Conan Doyle Project Gutenberg 54109
$0.00?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll  
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