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Title: The Story of the Brown Hand Title Record # 603593
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Date: 1899-05-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
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Other Titles

Variant Titles Translations
Year Title
1899 The Story of the Brown Hand [as by A. Conan Doyle]
1908 The Brown Hand
1919 The Brown Hand [as by A. Conan Doyle]
1967 The Brown Hand [as by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]
Year Language Title
1959Translated by Pierre Vigneaux
French La main brune [as by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]
1966Translated by Rudolf Rocholl
German Die braune Hand [as by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]
1981Translated by Louis Labat.
French La main brune
1987Translated by Gianni Pilo and Daniela Galdo
Italian La mano
1989Translated by Pierre Vigneaux
French La main brune [as by Conan Doyle]
1992Translated by Sari Kallioinen and/or Anita Puumalainen
Finnish Ruskea käsi [as by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]
2011Translated by Pócsi István
Hungarian A barna kéz

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
The Strand Magazine, May 1899 1899-05-00 ed. Editors of The Strand Magazine, H. Greenhough Smith George Newnes  
-/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).
120
octavo?5.5" by 8.5" magazine, usually saddle-stapled, instead of side-stapled or glued
mag  
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  
The Great Keinplatz Experiment and Other Tales of Twilight and the Unseen 1919-00-00 A. Conan Doyle George H. Doran     254
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
The Great Keinplatz Experiment and Other Tales of Twilight and the Unseen 1925-00-00 Arthur Conan Doyle George H. Doran  
$0.90?$: US dollar
254
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
The Great Keinplatz Experiment and Other Tales of Twilight and the Unseen 1925-00-00 A. Conan Doyle George H. Doran (The Conan Doyle Stories #4)  
$0.90?$: US dollar
254
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  
Œuvres complètes XII 1959-05-11 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Robert Laffont     627
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
omni  
The Conan Doyle Stories 1960-00-00 Arthur Conan Doyle John Murray     xii+
1201
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Ghosts, Spooks and Spectres 1967-00-00 ed. Charles Molin Hamish Hamilton  
18/-?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).
237
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
The Ring of Thoth: and Other Stories 1968-00-00 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle John Murray 0-7195-1778-8
5/-?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).
190
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 Checkmark
Die Schreckenskammer 1969-00-00 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Heyne     158
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  
Terror! 1970-00-00 ed. Bryan A. Netherwood Blackie & Son 0-216-88412-8
£1.65?£: UK pound
392
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Ghosts, Spooks and Spectres 1971-00-00 ed. Charles Molin Puffin 0-14-030506-8
£0.30?£: UK pound
238
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.
anth Philip Gough  
Ghosts, Spooks and Spectres 1972-00-00 ed. Charles Molin Puffin 0-14-030506-8   238
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.
anth  
Ghosts, Spooks and Spectres 1973-00-00 ed. Charles Molin Puffin 0-14-030506-8
£0.30?£: UK pound
238
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.
anth Philip Gough Checkmark
Weirdies: A Horrifying Concatenation of the Super-sur-real or Almost or Not-quite Real 1973-00-00 ed. Helen Hoke Franklin Watts 0-85166-401-6
£1.95?£: UK pound
242
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
A Little Night Reading: Twenty Tales of Horror and the Supernatural 1974-00-00 ed. Dave Allen Roger Schlesinger 0-85093-191-6
£2.50?£: UK pound
315
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Weirdies Weirdies Weirdies: A Horrifying Concatenation of the Super-sur-real or Almost or Not-quite Real 1975-00-00 ed. Helen Hoke Franklin Watts 0-531-02683-3
$5.95?$: US dollar
242
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Charles Keeping  
A Little Night Reading 1975-09-00 ed. Dave Allen Orbit / Futura 0-86007-863-9
£0.75?£: UK pound
314
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.
anth  
Dark Imaginings: A Collection of Gothic Fantasy 1978-00-00 ed. Robert H. Boyer, Kenneth J. Zahorski Delta 0-440-53118-7
$4.95?$: US dollar
348
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 Joel Schick  
Dark Imaginings: A Collection of Gothic Fantasy 1978-07-00 ed. Robert H. Boyer, Kenneth J. Zahorski Delta 0-440-53118-7
$4.95?$: US dollar
348
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 Joel Schick Checkmark
The Best Supernatural Tales of Arthur Conan Doyle 1979-00-00 Arthur Conan Doyle Dover Publications 0-486-23725-7
$6.95?$: US dollar
xiv+
302
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 Lida Moser Checkmark
65 Great Tales of the Supernatural 1979-00-00 ed. Mary Danby Octopus Books 0-7064-1387-3   704
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
The Best Supernatural Tales of Arthur Conan Doyle 1979-08-00 Arthur Conan Doyle Dover Publications 0-486-23725-7
$4.00?$: US dollar
xiv+
302
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 Lida Moser Checkmark
Ghost Stories 1980-00-00 ed. Deborah Shine Octopus Books 0-7064-1158-7
£1.99?£: UK pound
349
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
L'horreur des altitudes 1981-00-00 Arthur Conan Doyle Union générale d'éditions (Les maîtres de l'étrange et de la peur) 2-264-00328-6   248
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 Alain Tercinet  
Tales from Beyond the Grave 1982-00-00 ed. uncredited Octopus Books 0-7064-1798-4
£2.99?£: UK pound
377
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Mick Brownfield Checkmark
65 Great Tales of the Supernatural 1982-00-00 ed. Mary Danby Octopus Books / Marks and Spencer 0-904230-99-6   704
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
65 Great Tales of the Supernatural 1982-00-00 ed. Mary Danby Octopus Books 0-7064-1387-3   704
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Horror Stories 1987-00-00 ed. uncredited Hamlyn 0-600-57098-3
£2.99?£: UK pound
191
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Il capitano della Stella Polare 1987-09-00 Arthur Conan Doyle Fanucci Editore (I Miti di Cthulhu #14) 88-347-0014-7
Lit 15,000?Lit: Italian lira
209
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 Boris Vallejo  
The Supernatural Tales of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1988-04-00 Arthur Conan Doyle W. Foulsham & Co. 0-572-01453-8
£12.95?£: UK pound
272
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Tales from Beyond the Grave 1989-00-00 ed. uncredited Gallery Books / W. H. Smith 0-8317-8628-0
$6.98?$: US dollar
377
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Mick Brownfield  
Les exploits du Pr Challenger et autres aventures étranges 1989-03-00 Conan Doyle Robert Laffont (Bouquins) 2-221-05630-2
F120.00?F: French frank
1155
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.
omni  
The Best Supernatural Tales of Arthur Conan Doyle 1989-06-00 Arthur Conan Doyle Amereon House 0-8488-0752-9
$30.95?$: US dollar
xiv+
302
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  
The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories 2 1991-09-00 ed. Richard Dalby Carroll & Graf 0-88184-701-1
$9.95?$: US dollar
658
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 Peter Kettle  
The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories 2 1991-10-00 ed. Richard Dalby Robinson 1-85487-102-1
£5.99?£: UK pound
658
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 Peter Kettle  
Great Vampires & Other Horrors 1992-00-00 ed. uncredited Chancellor Press 1-85152-235-2
£4.99?£: UK pound
541
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Theo Platt  
Kun Maa kirkui ja muita epätavallisia tarinoita 1992-00-00 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Werner Söderström Osakeyhtiö?Werner Soederstroem Osakeyhtioe
Werner Soderstrom Osakeyhtio
(FAN)
951-0-18375-X   283
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 Hannu Lipponen Checkmark
Tales of Horror and Mystery 1993-10-00 ed. uncredited Dean & Son 0-603-55222-6
£2.99?£: UK pound
378
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Luis Rey  
The Giant Book of Ghost Stories 1996-00-00 ed. Richard Dalby Parragon 0-7525-0152-6   658
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  
The Supernatural Tales of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 2000-00-00 Arthur Conan Doyle Gramercy Books 0-517-16201-6
$8.99?$: US dollar
272
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Great Vampire Stories 2002-00-00 ed. uncredited Chancellor Press 0-7537-0570-2
£6.99?£: UK pound
538
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 Checkmark
The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Reader: From Sherlock Holmes to Spiritualism 2002-04-00 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Cooper Square Press 0-8154-1202-9
$28.95?$: US dollar
xxxvi+
500
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
The Penguin Book of Indian Ghost Stories 2003-03-30 ed. Ruskin Bond Penguin Books 0-14-017832-5
£5.99?£: UK pound
xvi+
181
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  
The Wordsworth Book of Horror Stories 2004-00-00 ed. uncredited Wordsworth Editions 1-84022-056-2   1149
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 Checkmark
The Captain of the 'Pole-Star': Weird and Imaginative Fiction 2004-05-22 Arthur Conan Doyle Ash-Tree Press 1-55310-068-9
C$60.00?C$: Canadian dollar
xxxviii+
460
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll Paul Lowe  
The Speculative Conan Doyle 2010-00-00 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Coachwhip Publications 978-1-61646-024-2   396
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  
The Horror of the Heights & Other Strange Tales 2010-00-00 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Fall River Press 978-1-4351-2504-9   x+
334
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Short Ghost and Horror Story Collection 8 2010-02-26 ed. LibriVox LibriVox  
$0.00?$: US dollar
 
digital audio download?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts.
anth  
The Great Keinplatz Experiment and Other Tales of Twilight and the Unseen 2010-06-11 A. Conan Doyle Project Gutenberg 32777
$0.00?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll  
Jobb nem firtatni 2011-00-00 Arthur Conan Doyle Delta Vision Kft. (
MesterMűvek: Klasszikusok?MesterMuvek: Klasszikusok
#5)
978-963-9890-11-4
Ft 2,990?Ft: Hungarian forint
340
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 Tikos Péter Checkmark
The Captain of the 'Pole-Star': Weird and Imaginative Fiction 2012-02-22 Arthur Conan Doyle Ash-Tree Press 978-1-55310-217-5
$7.99?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll Paul Lowe Checkmark
The Captain of the 'Pole-Star': Weird and Imaginative Fiction 2012-02-22 Arthur Conan Doyle Ash-Tree Press 978-1-55310-216-8
$7.99?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll Paul Lowe  
The Victorian Ghost Story: Annotated and Illustrated Tales of the Macabre (1852-1912) 2013-09-20 ed. M. Grant Kellermeyer Oldstyle Tales Press (Oldstyle Tales' Ghost Stories #1) 978-0-615-88634-3
$7.26?$: US dollar
204
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  
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  
Gothic Tales 2016-10-01 Arthur Conan Doyle Oxford University Press (Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection) 978-0-19-873429-1
£16.99?£: UK pound
592
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Gothic Tales 2016-10-20 Arthur Conan Doyle Oxford University Press 978-0-19-105363-4
£16.99?£: UK pound
 
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  
Supernatural Sherlocks: Stories from the Golden Age of the Occult Detective 2017-10-26 ed. Nick Rennison No Exit Press 978-1-84344-975-1
£9.99?£: UK pound
287
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 Checkmark
Gothic Tales 2018-03-22 Arthur Conan Doyle Oxford University Press (Oxford World's Classics) 978-0-19-873430-7
£9.99?£: UK pound
592
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  
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