Doyle wrote A Study in Scarlet, the first Sherlock Holmes novel, in just three weeks. The novel introduced the characters of Holmes and Watson and inspired 56 short stories.
It took Arthur Conan Doyle just three weeks to write the first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet, published in 1887. The novel introduced the classic literary characters of detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr. John Watson for the first time , and is one of only four full-length novels featuring the characters. Its title is in reference to a part of the story, in which it refers to solving murders as “a study in scarlet”. The Sherlock Holmes character became so popular with audiences, 56 short stories were published up to 1927 – even after Doyle originally killed off the Holmes character in 1893’s The Final Problem.
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