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Sherlock Holmes was a fictional detective created by Arthur Conan Doyle, a medical doctor who preferred writing to attending his patients.

The eccentric pipe smoking resident of 221b Baker Street, London, first appeared in print late in 1887, in the novel 'A Study in Scarlet'. The idea of the detective story was in its infancy and Sherlock Holmes was immediately popular, helping to unleash a passion for mystery and detection stories that persists over a century later.

The stories of Sherlock Holmes antics with his sidekick, the bumbling and ever patient, Dr Watson' and Holmes’ arch-enemy' Professor James Moriarty' were then serialized in 'A Scandal in Bohemia', published in 1891 in The Strand magazine.

Holmes was a Bohemian. He alternated between days or weeks of listless lassitude and similar periods of intense engagement, with a challenging case or with his hobby, experimental chemistry, or with his violin. He was an occasional user of cocaine, though Watson describes this as Holmes' "only vice”, bar, of course, his pipe, that was forever between his lips, as well as his tendency to bend the truth and break the law, when it suited his purposes.

Doyle loosely modelled the character of Holmes on his lecturer at Edinburgh medical school, Joseph Bell, who was a pioneer in the new science of forensics.

The nature of the stories, chronicled by Watson as though they are reports of actual crimes, has caused considerable confusion over the years. Many readers have finished the stories uncertain of whether they have read fiction or fact. To confuse matters further, a whole body of academics entered into the game, pretending that Holmes and Watson were real, and Doyle was merely Watson’s literary agent. Their game was to apply Holmes’ own methods to analyzing the stories and trying to explain the inconsistencies. Journals then published their research, with their editors under the impression that Holmes and Watson were actual people.

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The original stories:

The Sign of the Four (novel, 1890)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

A Scandal in Bohemia, 1891
The Red-headed League, 1891
A Case of Identity, 1891
The Boscombe Valley Mystery, 1891
The Five Orange Pips, 1891
The Man with the Twisted Lip, 1891
The Blue Carbuncle, 1892
The Speckled Band, 1892
The Engineer's Thumb, 1892
The Noble Bachelor, 1892
The Beryl Coronet, 1892
The Copper Beeches, 1892

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Silver Blaze, 1892
The Yellow Face, 1893
The Stock-broker's Clerk, 1893
The 'Gloria Scott', 1893
The Musgrave Ritual, 1893
The Reigate Squires, 1893
The Crooked Man, 1893
The Resident Patient, 1893
The Greek Interpreter, 1893
The Naval Treaty, 1893
The Final Problem, 1893

The Hound of the Baskervilles (novel, 1901-02)
The Return of Sherlock Holmes

The Empty House, 1903
The Norwood Builder, 1903
The Dancing Men, 1903
The Solitary Cyclist, 1903
The Priory School, 1904
Black Peter, 1904
Charles Augustus Milverton, 1904
The Six Napoleons, 1904
The Three Students, 1904
The Golden Pince-Nez, 1904
The Missing Three-Quarter, 1904
The Abbey Grange, 1904
The Second Stain, 1904

The Valley of Fear (novel, 1914-15)
His Last Bow

Wisteria Lodge, 1908
The Cardboard Box, 1893
The Red Circle, 1911
The Bruce-Partington Plans, 1908
The Dying Detective, 1913
Lady Frances Carfax, 1911
The Devil's Foot, 1910
His Last Bow, 1917

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

The Illustrious Client, 1924
The Blanched Soldier, 1926
The Mazarin Stone, 1921
The Three Gables, 1926
The Sussex Vampire, 1924
The Three Garridebs, 1924
Thor Bridge, 1922
The Creeping Man, 1923
The Lion's Mane, 1926
The Veiled Lodger, 1927
Shoscombe Old Place, 1927
The Retired Colourman, 1926
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