The works of Arthur Conan Doyle include short stories, novels, poems, plays,

operettas, non-fiction and pamphletsthe latter on spiritualism and the paranormal.

In October 1879 Doyle was still studying for his medical degree when he published
his first work"The Mystery of the Sasassa Valley"which appeared in Chambers's
Journal. In 1887 he published A Study in Scarlet, which appeared in Beeton's
Christmas Annual; the story introduced Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr John
Watson. The duo subsequently came to wide public notice in the July 1891 short
story "A Scandal in Bohemia" in The Strand Magazine. Doyle, fearful of having his
other work overshadowed by his fictional detective, killed off his creation in
December 1893, although he later relented and re-introduced the characters; the
works make up the Holmes series of stories. Doyle also wrote four full-length
Holmes works, as well as adventure novels and nine works of historical fiction, and
the adventure series featuring Professor Challenger, who first appeared in The Lost
Worldboth in short stories and novel form. He also wrote four volumes of poetry
and a series of stage works. Owing to the close successive deaths of his son and
brother, Doyle turned to spiritualism and wrote extensively on the subject. (Full
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