The first Sherlock Holmes story, “A Study in Scarlet,” was published in The Strand magazine in 1887, with regular stories beginning to appear in 1891. The adventures of the world’s only consulting detective were an instant hit. In 1899, William Gillete was playing him on stage and by 1900 D.W. Griffith produced a short for Mutoscope. The ‘plot’ of the one-minute drama makes no sense but it does underscore the intense and immediate popularity of Holmes (Gillette would also play Holmes in the 1916 silent film).
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