Sherlock Holmes first appears in literature in Arthur Conan Doyle's "Study in Scarlet" in 1887.
Arthur Conan Doyle, a Scottish writer, developed the fictitious character Sherlock Holmes. Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet, published in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887, established Holmes as the template for the contemporary clever detective. As the world's first and only "consulting detective," he tracked down criminals in Victorian and Edwardian London, the south of England, and continental Europe. Although Edgar Allan Poe's C. Auguste Dupin and Émile Gaboriau's Monsieur Lecoq foreshadowed the fictional detective, Holmes had a distinctive impression on the popular imagination and has been the most lasting figure of the detective novel.
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