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
Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Mummy Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Mummy Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Mummy is an adventure game for Microsoft Windows, developed by Frogwares and released in 2002. The player controls Arthur Conan Doyle's detective Sherlock Holmes, investigating the mysteriously abandoned mansion of British archeologist Lord Montecalf. It is the first in the "Sherlock Holmes" series of adventure games developed by Frogwares and Viva Media, and was ported to the Nintendo DS in 2009. According to Frogwares, "Mystery of the Mummy" was a surprise hit for the team and sold roughly 1 million units by 2013. The original version of