Robert Louis Stevenson "on the cuff," as he said, at a nearby restaurant run by Frenchman Jules Simoneau which stood at what is now Simoneau Plaza; several years later, he sent Simoneau an inscribed copy of his novel "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" (1886), writing that it would be a stranger case still if Robert Louis Stevenson ever forgot Jules Simoneau. While in Monterey, he wrote an evocative article about "the Old Pacific Capital" of Monterey. By December 1879, Stevenson had recovered his health enough to continue to San Francisco where he struggled "all alone on forty-five cents a day,
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