The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession (2010) is a collection of 12 articles (essays) by American journalist David Grann.

The essays were previously published between 2000 and 2009 in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic and The Atlantic, and have been "updated and revised".

[1] The stories are about real-life mysteries, a "mosaic of ambition, deception, passion, and folly.

[3] It is Grann's second book, after The Lost City of Z (2009) published the previous year, and his first collected anthology of essays.

You might feel that some of the pieces skirt credibility, but remember, as Holmes himself once said, "Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.