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The Adventure of the Speckled Band

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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When was Sherlock Holmes written?

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Arthur Conan Doyle wrote his wonderful Sherlock Holmes stories from 1887 through 1914 (though most of them were written by 1903).

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