ENGL 399 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Arthur Conan Doyle, Red Hair, Pawnbroker
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3 short sherlock stories arthur conan doyle. Most of arthur co(cid:374)a(cid:374) do(cid:455)le"s produ(cid:272)tio(cid:374) (cid:449)as i(cid:374) the for(cid:373) of herlo(cid:272)k hol(cid:373)es short stories. There are only 4 sherlock novels but 56 short stories. In general, short stories were the typical way short stories appeared for a decent time period in the end of the 1800s and beginning of 1900s. Novels rose in the 1920s at the development of lending libraries and the upsurge in book and newspaper stores in newspaper stations. Bookstores in railway stations sold cheap novels, including detective fiction. In the 1940s/50s particularly in america to go back to short stories for detective fiction. There come to be magazines that are primarily publishing detective fiction. Detective stories were typically published in magazines (such as the strand) Writing short detective fiction vs. long fiction: short story has to be resolved (crime has to be solved) within very few words.