Editing A Study in Scarlet (section)

== Publication ==
[[Arthur Conan Doyle]] wrote the novel at the age of 27 in less than three weeks.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/7759600/Inscribed-copy-of-Sherlock-Holmes-debut-book-for-sale.html |title=Inscribed copy of Sherlock Holmes' debut book for sale |newspaper=The Telegraph |location=UK |date=24 May 2010 }}</ref> As a doctor in general practice in [[Southsea]], [[Hampshire]], he had already published short stories in several magazines of the day, such as the periodical ''[[London Society]]''. The story was originally titled ''A Tangled Skein'' and was eventually published by [[Ward, Lock & Co.|Ward, Lock & Co]]. in the 1887 edition of ''[[Beeton's Christmas Annual]]'', after many rejections. Conan Doyle had pressed for [[royalty payment|royalty]] but instead received £25 in return for the full rights (equivalent to £3,371.95 considering inflation). It was illustrated by [[David Henry Friston]].

The novel was first published as a book in July 1888 by Ward, Lock & Co, and featured drawings by the author's father, [[Charles Altamont Doyle|Charles Doyle]]. In 1890, [[J. B. Lippincott & Co.]] released the first American version. Another edition published in 1891 by Ward, Lock & Bowden Limited (formerly Ward, Lock & Co.) was illustrated by [[George Wylie Hutchinson|George Hutchinson]]. A German edition of the novel published in 1902 was illustrated by Richard Gutschmidt.<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Klinger |editor-first=Leslie  |title=The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes |volume=III |location=New York |publisher=W W Norton |year=2006 |pages=2, 11, 13, 56 |isbn=978-0393058000}}</ref> Numerous further editions, translations and dramatisations have appeared since.