So Doyle turned to financial incentive in lieu of creative stasis, urging publishers to cough up for more Holmes stories. He takes my mind from better things." His mother - inadvertedly representing the voices of fiction fans the world over - was outraged. It even got to a point that Doyle himself was sick of his creation, writing to his mother in 1891: "I think of slaying Holmes.
Nevertheless, he was no great age when he created the character who would make him famous as a writer - he was 27, and wrote A Study in Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson's debut, in just three weeks.įrom that humble beginning, three Sherlock novels and five collections of short stories emerged. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created Holmes in 1887, in the midst of a career as a doctor and botanist. Auguste Dupin and Monsieur Lecoq haven't become quite such familiar household names. Themes: Adapted Classics, Low Level Classics, Graphic Novels, Illustrated, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Fiction, Tween, Teen, Young Adult, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner. Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes isn't the first fictional detective to grace bookshelves, but C. The Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Graphic Novel (Illustrated Classics series) by Doyle Sir Arthur Conan.