Sherlock Holmes #OnThisDay

On 1st December 1887 Sherlock Holmes first appeared in print in "Study in Scarlet" by Arthur Conan Doyle. Cover of Beeton's Christmas Annual for 1887, featuring A. Conan Doyle's story A Study in Scarlet Arthur Conan Doyle wrote the novel at the age of 27 in less than three weeks. As a doctor in general practice in Southsea, Hampshire, he had already published short stories in several magazines of the day, such as the periodical

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