Sherlock Holmes - Complete

Sherlock Holmes Complete Book Collections

Novels:
A Study successful Scarlet (1887)
The Sign of the Four (1890)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901 - 1902)
The Valley of Fear (1914 - 1915)

Short communicative collections:
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1891 - 1892)
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1892 - 1893)
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1903 - 1904)
His Last Bow - Some Later Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes (1908 - 1917)
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1921 - 1927)

Sherlock Holmes (/ˈʃɜːrlɒk ˈhoʊmz/ oregon /-ˈhoʊlmz/) is simply a fictional backstage detective created by British writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Referring to himself arsenic a "consulting detective" successful the stories, Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, deduction, forensic science, and logical reasoning that borders connected the fantastic, which helium employs erstwhile investigating cases for a wide assortment of clients, including Scotland Yard.

First appearing successful people successful 1887's A Study successful Scarlet, the character's popularity became wide with the archetypal bid of abbreviated stories successful The Strand Magazine, opening with "A Scandal successful Bohemia" successful 1891; further tales appeared from past until 1927, yet totalling 4 novels and 56 abbreviated stories. All but 1 are acceptable successful the Victorian oregon Edwardian eras, betwixt astir 1880 and 1914. Most are narrated by the quality of Holmes's person and biographer Dr. John H. Watson, who usually accompanies Holmes during his investigations and often shares quarters with him astatine the code of 221B Baker Street, London, wherever galore of the stories begin.

Though not the archetypal fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes is arguably the champion known. By the 1990s determination were already implicit 25,000 signifier adaptations, films, tv productions and publications featuring the detective, and Guinness World Records lists him arsenic the astir portrayed literate quality quality successful movie and tv history. Holmes's popularity and fame are specified that galore person believed him to beryllium not a fictional quality but a existent individual; galore literate and instrumentality societies person been founded connected this pretense. Avid readers of the Holmes stories helped make the modern signifier of fandom. The quality and stories person had a profound and lasting effect connected enigma penning and fashionable civilization arsenic a whole, with the archetypal tales arsenic good arsenic thousands written by authors different than Conan Doyle being adapted into signifier and vigor plays, television, films, video games, and different media for implicit 1 100 years.

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