"The Adventure of the Devil's Foot" is one of the fifty-six Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Arthur Conan Doyle, and one of eight stories in the volume, His Last Bow.

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (May 22, 1859 – July 7, 1930) was a British author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays and romances, poetry, and non-fiction.