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Title: The Man with the Watches Title Record # 603233
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Date: 1898-07-00
Type: SHORTFICTION [non-genre]
Length: short story
Series: Round the Fire
Series Number: 2
Language: English
Note:
  • Non-speculative detective story.
  • Originally printed in the July 1898 issue of the Strand Magazine.
  • According to literary historian Leslie S. Klinger, in his anthology In The Shadow of Sherlock Holmes, the mysterious unnamed detective in this story may be either Sherlock Holmes or his brother Mycroft.
Synopsis: "A body of a young man has been found in a train compartment. Having been shot with a pistol, he turns out to have had neither identification papers nor even a ticket. Instead, during the examination of his personal effects the police find six expensive gold watches. All the people who shared the compartment with him have disappeared and cannot be found anywhere..." (publisher's blurb)
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Other Titles

Variant Titles Translations
Year Title
1898 The Story of the Man with the Watches [as by A. Conan Doyle]
1925 The Man With the Watches [as by A. Conan Doyle]
1978 The Man with the Watches [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, 1911.
French L'homme aux six montres
1973Translated by Paola Forti
Italian L'uomo dagli orologi [as by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]
1981 Portuguese O Homem dos Relógios

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  
Tales of Terror and Mystery 1979-00-00 Arthur Conan Doyle Penguin Books 0-14-004878-2
£?£: UK pound
224
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
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  
In the Shadow of Sherlock Holmes: Classic Detective Fiction 1862-1910 2011-12-00 ed. Leslie S. Klinger IDW Publishing 978-1-61377-113-6
$16.99?$: US dollar
xxii+
350
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.
anth Michael Manomivibul Checkmark
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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