Arthur Conan Doyle's novel "A Study in Scarlet" introduces the iconic detective Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson. This work is significant for establishing many conventions of the detective fiction genre.
Sources for Arthur Conan Doyle — A Study in Scarlet
Arthur Conan Doyle — A Study in Scarlet in First Mystery Novels and Stories
Held in the First Mystery Novels and Stories chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Edgar Allan Poe — The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841)
- Edgar Allan Poe — The Mystery of Marie Rogêt (1842)
- Edgar Allan Poe — The Purloined Letter (1844)
- Wilkie Collins — The Woman in White (1859)
- Wilkie Collins — The Moonstone (1868)
- Charles Felix — The Notting Hill Mystery (1862)
- Émile Gaboriau — The Lerouge Case (1866)
- Seeley Regester — The Dead Letter (1866)
- Anna Katharine Green — The Leavenworth Case (1878)
- Robert Louis Stevenson — The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)
- Fergus Hume — The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886)
- Israel Zangwill — The Big Bow Mystery (1892)
- Baroness Orczy — The Old Man in the Corner (1908)
- Arthur Conan Doyle — The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892)
- Arthur Conan Doyle — The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)
- Maurice Leblanc — The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin (1907)
- Fergus Hume — The Green Mummy (1908)