The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Doyle | Wordsworth Collector’s Edition | Hardcover BookHaving firmly established the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson in the novelsA Study in ScarletandThe Sign of the Four,Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was retained byThe Strand Magazineto contribute a series of twelve short stories, which began with ‘A Scandal in Bohemia’ in 1891 and were published monthly for the next year. The stories, in which the master sleuth receives a stream of clients presenting him with baffling and bizarre mysteries in his consulting room at 221B Baker Street, were instantly popular and by the time of the publication of the final story, ‘The Copper Beeches’, they had become the mainstay of the magazine. They included such classic tales as ‘The Five Orange Pips’ and ‘The Adventure of the Speckled Band’, and were gathered together in a collection known asThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, representing some of the finest detective stories ever written.