Beacham, Walton, ed. Research Guide to Biography and Criticism. Washington, DC: Beacham Publishing, 1985. The entry on Conan Doyle summarizes and evaluates the important biographies and critical books.

Beetz, Kirk H. "Arthur Conan Doyle." In Popular World Fiction: 1900-Present, edited by Walton Beacham and Suzanne Niemeyer. Washington, DC: Beacham Publishing, 1987. Although it repeats some of the analysis in the present article, this article covers Conan Doyle's life and career in more detail and offers in-depth analyses of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries The Hound of the Baskervilles and "The Adventure of the Speckled Band." It also includes a lengthy discussion of the numerous adaptations of the Holmes stories.

Conan Doyle, Arthur. Memories and Adventures. Boston: Little, Brown, 1924.

Autobiography.

Higham, Charles. The Adventures of Conan Doyle: The Life of the Creator of Sherlock Holmes. New York: W. W. Norton, 1976. Higham sets but the facts of Conan Doyle's...