Although the stories continued to appear until 1927, all were set before the First World War (the latest in the internal chronology is “His Last Bow”, set in 1914). With the exception of the first two novels, A Study in Scarlet (1887) and The Sign of the Four (1890), all of Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories first appeared in The Strand magazine, beginning with “A Scandal in Bohemia” (1891) and ending with “The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place” (1927). Watson, has appeared in hundreds of films, TV series, advertisements, games, and literary pastiches the deerstalker-clad profile, while never described in the books by Doyle, is iconic, largely thanks to the illustrations by Sidney Paget. Holmes, along with his narrator and friend Dr. This is perhaps due to the fact that he has not remained limited to the texts he first appeared in, namely the four novels and fifty-six short stories written by the Scottish author Arthur Conan Doyle (b. 1859–d. 1930) in the forty years between 18. Sherlock Holmes is possibly the most immediately recognizable character in all of fiction.
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