The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes of the Speckled Band" as his overall favourite. Arthur Conan Doyle began writing while studying medicine at university in the late 1870s, and had his first short story, "The Mystery of Sasassa Valley", published in September 1879. After eight years, "A Study in Scarlet", Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes story, was published by Ward Lock & Co. The novel was well received, but Doyle was paid little for it, and despite a sequel novel, "The Sign of the Four", which was published in Lipincott's Monthly Magazine, he shifted his focus to short stories. In early 1891, the first editor of "The
Young Sherlock Holmes: Death Cloud limbs). He hates the British Empire and plans to destroy the British Army with the bees. Based on the success of Charlie Higson's bestselling Young Bond series, the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle authorised a series of books detailing the life of the teenage Sherlock Holmes. When the series was first in development, the title of "Death Cloud" was initially to be called either "The Colossal Schemes of Baron Maupertuis" or "Sherlock Holmes and the Shadow of the Marionette". "The Colossal Schemes of Baron Maupertuis" is an adventure mentioned in "The Adventure of the Reigate Squire". Maupertuis had already