Novel in Scotland of Anthony Trollope. In the late nineteenth century, a number of Scottish-born authors achieved international reputations. Robert Louis Stevenson's (1850–94) work included the urban Gothic novella "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" (1886), which explored the psychological consequences of modernity. Stevenson was also crucial to the further development of the historical novel with historical adventures in books like "Kidnapped" (1886) and "Treasure Island" (1893) and particularly "The Master of Ballantrae" (1888), which used historical backgrounds as a mechanism for exploring modern concerns through allegory. Arthur Conan Doyle's (1859–1930) "Sherlock Holmes" stories produced the archetypal detective figure and helped
British literature "The Prisoner of Zenda" (1894). Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94) also wrote works in this genre, including "Kidnapped" (1886), an historical novel set in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745, and "Treasure Island" (1883), the classic pirate adventure. Wilkie Collins' epistolary novel "The Moonstone" (1868) is generally considered the first detective novel in the English language, and soon after Sir Arthur Conan Doyle began his Sherlock Holmes series about a London-based "consulting detective". Doyle wrote four novels and fifty-six short stories featuring Holmes, from 1880 up to 1907, with a final case in 1914. H. G. Wells's (1866–1946) writing