Arthur Conan Doyle - More Than Detective Novels

The Washington Post: Beyond the Sherlock Holmes tales, there’s “The White Company” and “Sir Nigel.”

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, however, could never quite understand why his detective stories excited such hoopla. While grateful for the pots of cash they brought in, he firmly believed that his name would live in literary history because of his two deeply researched historical novels, “The White Company” (1891) and “Sir Nigel” (1906). 

The first and more famous is available this month in an exemplary annotated edition by Doug Elliott and Roy Pilot, while the second is arguably an even better written, more thrilling swashbuckler.

Set in the 14th century during what we now call the Hundred Years’ War, both books celebrate the chivalric ideals of honor, courtesy, physical prowess and patriotism. Conan Doyle himself viewed these courtly and martial virtues as sacrosanct.

Apart from the complete the collection of Sherlock Holmes, I also have Conan Doyle's "Tales of Pirates and Blue Water" and a copy of 'The White Company"