<P> 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 , also being published by Ward Lock , he shifted his focus to short stories . In early 1891 , the first editor of The Strand Magazine , Herbert Greenhough Smith , received two submissions from Doyle for the newly established magazine . He later described his reaction ; `` I at once realised that here was the greatest short story writer since Edgar Allan Poe . '' The first of these , `` A Scandal in Bohemia '' was published near the back of The Strand Magazine in July 1891 . The stories proved popular , helping to boost the circulation of the magazine , and Doyle received 30 guineas for each short story in the initial run of twelve . These first twelve stories were published monthly from July 1891 until June 1892 , and then were collected together and published as a book , The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes on 14 October 1892 by George Newnes , the publisher of The Strand Magazine . The initial print run of the book was for 10,000 copies in the United Kingdom , and a further 4,500 copies in the United States , which were published by Harper Brothers the following day . </P>
<P> 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 , also being published by Ward Lock , he shifted his focus to short stories . In early 1891 , the first editor of The Strand Magazine , Herbert Greenhough Smith , received two submissions from Doyle for the newly established magazine . He later described his reaction ; `` I at once realised that here was the greatest short story writer since Edgar Allan Poe . '' The first of these , `` A Scandal in Bohemia '' was published near the back of The Strand Magazine in July 1891 . The stories proved popular , helping to boost the circulation of the magazine , and Doyle received 30 guineas for each short story in the initial run of twelve . These first twelve stories were published monthly from July 1891 until June 1892 , and then were collected together and published as a book , The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes on 14 October 1892 by George Newnes , the publisher of The Strand Magazine . The initial print run of the book was for 10,000 copies in the United Kingdom , and a further 4,500 copies in the United States , which were published by Harper Brothers the following day . </P>
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