The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

1892

The twelve stories Conan Doyle ran in the Strand between 1891 and 1892, the collection that made Holmes a household name. Watson narrates a king's blackmail in Bohemia, a pawnbroker's assistant paid to copy the encyclopaedia, a stepfather in disguise and the snake of the Speckled Band, with Irene Adler opening the sequence as the woman who outwitted him.