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was serialized in Strand Magazine, the author tired of his popular creation, and tired to killed off his hero in The Final Problem, but was pelled in 1903 to revive him, in response to Holmes? enthusiastic fans. In all, Holmes appeared in 56 of Conan Doyle?s short stories and four of his novels. Other works include science stories, historical novels, plays, romances, poetry and so on. Many of the Sherlock Holmes stories have been translated into other languages and have been made even more popular in plays, movies and TV. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died in 1930 at the age of seventyone. But each day, the number of his readers increases, as someone discovers, for the first time, the amazing Mr. Holmes. Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character of the late nieenth and early twentieth centuries who first appea