A Scandal in Bohemia

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A Scandal in Bohemia was the first of Arthur Conan Doyle's 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories to be published in The Strand Magazine. (Two of the four Sherlock Holmes novels — A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four — preceded the short story cycle.)

Beginning with the dramatic appearance of a masked aristocrat at Holmes' 221B Baker Street abode, and hanging on a blackmail plot orchestrated by a vivacious opera singer, the story is considered one of the Holmesian Canon's best. It is also notable as the only appearance in the Canon of Irene Adler.

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	Sherlock Holmes topics
Authors and illustrators: Arthur Conan Doyle \| Adrian Conan Doyle \| John Dickson Carr \| Nicholas Meyer \| Sidney Paget
Novels: A Study in Scarlet \| The Sign of Four \| The Hound of the Baskervilles \| The Valley of Fear
Short Stories: A Scandal in Bohemia \| The Red-Headed League \| A Case of Identity \| The Boscombe Valley Mystery \| The Five Orange Pips \| The Man with the Twisted Lip \| The Blue Carbuncle \| The Speckled Band \| The Engineer's Thumb \| The Noble Bachelor \| The Beryl Coronet \| The Copper Beeches \| Silver Blaze \| The Cardboard Box \| The Yellow Face \| The Stockbroker's Clerk \| The Gloria Scott \| The Musgrave Ritual \| The Reigate Squire \| The Crooked Man \| The Resident Patient \| The Greek Interpreter \| The Naval Treaty \| The Final Problem \| The Empty House \| The Norwood Builder \| The Dancing Men \| The Solitary Cyclist \| The Priory School \| Black Peter \| Charles Augustus Milverton \| The Six Napoleans \| The Three Students \| The Golden Pince-Nez \| The Missing Three-Quarter \| The Abbey Grange \| The Second Stain \| The Singular Experience of Mr. John Scott Eccles \| The Tiger of San Pedro \| The Red Circle \| The Bruce-Partington Plans \| The Dying Detective \| The Disappearance of Lady Francis Carfax \| The Devil's Foot \| His Last Bow \| The Illustrious Client \| The Blanched Soldier \| The Mazarin Stone \| The Three Gables \| The Sussex Vampire \| The Three Garridebs \| Thor Bridge \| The Creeping Man \| The Lion's Mane \| The Veiled Lodger \| Shoscombe Old Place \| The Retired Colourman
Characters: Irene Adler \| The Baker Street Irregulars \| Mycroft Holmes \| Inspector Lestrade \| Professor Moriarty \| Mary Russell \| Dr. Watson
Pastiches: The Canary Trainer \| The Seven-Per-Cent Solution \| Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century
Places: 221B Baker Street \| The Diogenes Club \| Reichenbach Falls