This did nothing, however, to slake the public’s appetite for more Holmes.Īt nearly the same time that The Strand was informing the public that no more of Watson’s adventures would appear in its pages, Holmes appeared on the London stage, in a one-act burlesque called Under the Clock.
With the demise of Holmes, The Strand rushed to fill its pages with imitations - eccentric detectives of every stripe, amusing but mostly long-forgotten today. By 1893, after 24 stories, Holmes’s career was apparently over: “The Final Problem,” appearing in December 1893, reported that Holmes had perished at the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland at the hands of his archnemesis, Professor James Moriarty. The first parody of Holmes, “My Evening with Sherlock Holmes,” appeared in a rival magazine in November 1891, after only five stories had been published in The Strand. Watson appeared in The Strand Magazine these would be followed over the years by 44 more stories and two more novels - and the reading public went wild for the Great Detective and the Good Doctor.
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The first of a series of 12 short stories about Sherlock Holmes and Dr. In July 1891, however, an explosion went off that is still felt almost 125 years later. This was followed in 1890 by The Sign of Four, also only a modest success. A very small bombshell, it must be said - the book sold only modestly. DOROTHY SAYERS, in her classic introduction to the anthology Omnibus of Crime, described the first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet (1887), as “flung like a bombshell” into the mystery genre.
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