” But it wasn’t until the format of his stories went from serially published novels to single-serve short stories that the popularity of his characters exploded. “A Study in Scarlet” didn’t make major waves at the time of publication, but it did well enough to allow Doyle to sell his second Holmes novel, “The Sign of Four. Sherlock Holmes Becomes a Sensation - and a Curse Dupin’s perceptive talents allowed him to solve mysteries by scientifically analyzing the facts of a case and shedding light on problems insurmountable to the official police force. Auguste Dupin, who was an early prototype of the model Doyle would now popularize: a brilliant amateur detective gifted with both a narrator sidekick and an ability to observe and infer.
When Doyle took up his pen to write, the detective genre as we now know it had few examples to draw from, but one notable pre-Holmes character that served as an inspiration was the 1841 Edgar Allan Poe detective C. A photograph of Joseph Bell published three years after his death in 1911. Joseph Bell, a Scottish medical professor whose ability to diagnose patient’s complaints through minute observations and brilliant deductions made a lasting impression on Conan Doyle when he was a young medical student. Holmes didn’t spring fully formed from the mind of Arthur Conan Doyle, of course. Watson, a pair now so colossally influential that subsequent detectives have yet to emerge from under their massive shadows.
The story, called “A Study in Scarlet,” was the first appearance of the immortal Sherlock Holmes and his colleague Dr. It would forever change the face of popular culture and usher in a whole new genre of story. In 1887, an adventure novel written by a 27-year-old for a little extra cash was published in the Christmas edition of a British paperback magazine. Sherlock Holmes: The History of the Mystery Close
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