Sherlock Holmes

The Writings of Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle

A Study in Scarlet, original cover from Beeton's Christmas Annual, November 1887 Sherlock Holmes appeared in a total of 60 stories, written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published between 1887 and 1927.

The first story, "A Study in Scarlet" was published in Beeton's Christmas Annual in November1887. Subsequent stories appeared in Strand Magazine, Harper's Weekly and Collier's Weekly. In all, Doyle completed four full length novels ("A Study in Scarlet", "The Sign of Four", "The Hound of the Baskervilles" and "The Valley of Fear") and a series of collections of short stories ("Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", "Memoires of Sherlock Holmes", "The Return of Sherlock Holmes", "His Last Bow" and "The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes"). The four novels and five volumes of short stories now often appear as The Complete Sherlock Holmes.

Subsequently Doyle's son Adrian and his biographer John Dickson Carr published a further series of Holmes stories: