diff --git a/content/evidence/a-study-in-scarlet-ad.png b/content/evidence/a-study-in-scarlet-ad.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..93cb8f9 Binary files /dev/null and b/content/evidence/a-study-in-scarlet-ad.png differ diff --git a/content/sherlock-holmes.md b/content/sherlock-holmes.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..702b9de --- /dev/null +++ b/content/sherlock-holmes.md @@ -0,0 +1,90 @@ +# Sherlock Holmes Research Document + +I want to set out to answer the question, "when was Sherlock Holmes published", knowing that the answer should be +multiple dates and potentially multiple dates for individual stories if installments were released over time. + +I'd like to get answers to these questions, but I'd also like for them to be corroborated in multiple ways before I +present them as facts on my site. If I can find at least 3 distinct sources of the information that I can consider +valid, then I'll post it. + +## The Dates +Acceptable Date Justifications: +- In Publication (IP): On the document containing the work itself (this is like the gold standard). +- Earliest Newspaper Advertisement (ENA): The argument being that the clipping is valid from a given newspaper on a given date from a trustworthy source and that it's the earliest a layman at the time would've been likely to see it and also that if it's advertised it must be available. +- Unverified Trusted Source (UTS): Something like a bibliography or a physical book being used as a justification which I haven't independently verified. + +### A Study in Scarlet +November 21st 1887: [ENA](./evidence/a-study-in-scarlet-ad.png) +This was released on November 21st 1887 in [Beeton's Christmas Annual](https://archive.org/details/beetons-christmas-annual-nov-1887/Beetons-Christmas-Annual-1887/page/1/mode/1up). + +### The Sign of the Four +February 1890: I have seen the publication in [that edition of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x030220116&seq=27) +::Needs refinement:: + +### A Scandal in Bohemia +June 25th 1891: (UTS) Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur; Klinger, Leslie S. (2005). The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 1. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 5. ISBN 0-7394-5304-1. + +This [was included in the July 1891 edition of the Strand Magazine](https://archive.org/details/TheStrandMagazineAnIllustratedMonthly/TheStrandMagazine1891bVol.IiJul-dec/page/60/mode/2up), but the magazine itself does not have an exact release date. + +## Unstarted + +- The Red-Headed League (August 1891) +- A Case of Identity (September 1891) +- The Boscombe Valley Mystery (October 1891) +- The Five Orange Pips (November 1891) +- The Man with the Twisted Lip (December 1891) +- The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle (January 1892) +- The Adventure of the Speckled Band (February 1892) +- The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb (March 1892) +- The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor (April 1892) +- The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet (May 1892) +- The Adventure of the Copper Beeches (June 1892) +- The Adventure of Silver Blaze (December 1892) +- The Adventure of the Cardboard Box (January 1893) +- The Adventure of the Yellow Face (February 1893) +- The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk (March 1893) +- The Adventure of the Gloria Scott (April 1893) +- The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual (May 1893) +- The Adventure of the Reigate Squire (June 1893) +- The Adventure of the Crooked Man (July 1893) +- The Adventure of the Resident Patient (August 1893) +- The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter (September 1893) +- The Adventure of the Naval Treaty (October 1893) +- The Adventure of the Final Problem (December 1893) +- The Hound of the Baskervilles (August 1901) +- The Adventure of the Empty House (October 1903) +- The Adventure of the Norwood Builder (November 1903) +- The Adventure of the Dancing Men (December 1903) +- The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist (January 1904) +- The Adventure of the Priory School (February 1904) +- The Adventure of Black Peter (March 1904) +- The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton (April 1904) +- The Adventure of the Six Napoleons (May 1904) +- The Adventure of the Three Students (June 1904) +- The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez (July 1904) +- The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter (August 1904) +- The Adventure of the Abbey Grange (September 1904) +- The Adventure of the Second Stain (December 1904) +- The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge (September 1908) +- The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans (December 1908) +- The Adventure of the Devil's Foot (December 1910) +- The Adventure of the Red Circle (March 1911) +- The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax (December 1911) +- The Adventure of the Dying Detective (December 1913) +- The Valley of Fear (September 1914) +- His Last Bow. The War Service of Sherlock Holmes (September 1917) +- The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone (October 1921) +- The Problem of Thor Bridge (February 1922) +- The Adventure of the Creeping Man (March 1923) +- The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire (January 1924) +- The Adventure of the Three Garridebs (January 1925) +- The Adventure of the Illustrious Client (February 1925) +- The Adventure of the Three Gables (October 1926) +- The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier (November 1926) +- The Adventure of the Lion's Mane (December 1926) +- The Adventure of the Retired Colourman (January 1927) +- The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger (February 1927) +- The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place (April 1927) + + +