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 pastiches Holmes, but it features many Conan Doyle's stories such as "The Hound of the Baskervilles", "The Valley of Fear", "The Speckled Band", "The Silver Blaze", "The Musgrave Ritual", "The Gloria Scott", and "The Copper Beeches". "The Tale of the Giant Rat of Sumatra" is a comedy album created by The Firesign Theatre featuring Hemlock Stones and Flotsam. Sherlock Holmes pastiches Sherlock Holmes has long been a popular character for pastiche, Holmes-related work by authors and creators other than Arthur Conan Doyle. Their works can be grouped into four broad categories: New Sherlock Holmes stories fall into many categories, including: In