Detective fiction of Crime Fiction", crime fiction from the past 100 years has generally contained 8 key rules to be a detective novel: Sherlock Holmes is British detective fiction written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The first appearance of Sherlock Holmes is at “A study in Scarlet”. At first, Sherlock Holmes did not result massive success, however starting from 1891, after published Sherlock Holmes at “Strand Magazine”, it became unquestionably popular. After Sherlock Holmes, many detective stories followed Conan Doyle’s structure and also include characters which have Sherlock Holmes characteristics. Sherlock Holmes as a series is perhaps the most popular form of
Canon of Sherlock Holmes Jack Tracy; "The Final Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", edited by Peter Haining; "The Uncollected Sherlock Holmes", edited by Richard Lancelyn Green; and the final volume of Leslie S. Klinger's "Sherlock Holmes Reference Library" titled "The Apocrypha of Sherlock Holmes". These works, each with slightly different contents, discussed several titles and their place in the canon. In addition to the canon, Conan Doyle wrote (occasionally with a co-writer) a number of vignettes, play adaptations and essays involving Holmes, and two short stories in which Holmes makes a possible cameo appearance. Most were published in various places during his lifetime; another has