The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, first published on 14 October 1892. It contains the earliest short stories featuring the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, which had been published in twelve monthly issues of The Strand Magazine and won immense popularity for Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. The stories are collected in the same sequence, which is not supported by any fictional chronology. The only characters common to all stories are Holmes and Dr. Watson and all are related in first-person narrative from Watson's point of view. The detective is at the height of his powers and the volume is full of famous cases, including "The Red-Headed League", "The Blue Carbuncle", and "The Speckled Band". Although Holmes gained a reputation for infallibility, Conan Doyle showed his own realism and feminism by having the great detective defeated by Irene Adler - the woman - in the story, "A Scandal in Bohemia".

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