Arthur Conan Doyle’s collection The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was first published in 1892.
The book gathered twelve Sherlock Holmes short stories that had originally appeared in The Strand Magazine between 1891 and 1892. Its publication helped establish Holmes as an internationally popular fictional detective, as readers encountered the character in a sequence of tightly constructed cases rather than in one long novel.
The collection followed A Study in Scarlet, published in 1887, and The Sign of the Four, published in 1890. Those earlier works introduced Holmes and Watson, but the Strand stories greatly expanded Holmes’s readership. Sidney Paget’s illustrations also became strongly associated with the detective’s visual image, including the deerstalker and curved pipe, although those details are not equally prominent in Doyle’s original descriptions.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is sometimes confused with later collections such as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, published in 1894. The 1892 volume contains stories including “A Scandal in Bohemia,” “The Red-Headed League” and “The Speckled Band.”