Tales for a Winters Night brings together eight Arthur Conan Doyle mystery
classics that originally appeared in the Strand magazine between July 1898 and January 1899.
When first gathered into one volume in 1908, the book was entitled Round the Fire Stories,
since the author recommended that they be read ideally round the fire upon a winters night.

According to Barzun &Taylor in A Catalogue of Crime, As one reads The Man with the
Watches, The Lost Special, The Jews Breastplate, The Black Doctor and the rest, one marvels
again at Doyles natural gift of story-telling and one relishes his ingrained habit of giving clues, even
when they serve narrative and are not to be used for ratiocination. The stories are worth reading
even around a radiator.

Other stories included in this complete unabridged edition are: The Club-Footed Grocer, The Sealed Room,
The Brazilian Cat, and B.24.