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Books mentioned in the Canon
 
Book by Boccaccio
A pocket edition of Boccaccio's 'Decameron' was one of the things found on the body of Enoch J. Drebber. The name 'Joseph Stangerson' was upon the flyleaf. (A Study in Scarlet)
 
Continental Gazetteer
Holmes used this heavy brown volume to lookup Egria, in Bohemia near Carlsbad, where the note-paper was manufacturered. (A Scandal in Bohemia)
 
De Jure inter Gentes
'A queer old book' that Holmes picked up from a stall, during the case of A Study in Scarlet. Published in Latin at Leige in the Lowlands in 1642. It was a little brown backed volume, printed by Philipp de Croy.
 
Henri Murger's Vie de Boheme
Watson was reading this book while Holmes was following Mrs Sawyer during the investigation of Enoch J. Drebber's murder. (A Study in Scarlet)
 
Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man
Holmes recommended this book to Watson. (The Sign of Four)