You can imagine the anticipation felt as people waited for the latest installment of a serial. It’s important to remember that before radios and televisions became ubiquitous in homes, newspapers were a primary source of both news and entertainment.
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You can read the serial installments of The Sign of Four in the Hampshire Telegraph on The British Newspaper Archive. Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette, 21 June 1890
On the heels of its success, it wasn’t long before Arthur Conan Doyle had a new Sherlock story. Illustrated London News, 26 November 1887 The Graphic, 26 November 1887 The novel was printed as a serial to great success. Sherlock Holmes first graced the pages of Beeton’s Christmas Annual in the 1887 printing of A Study in Scarlett. From the first appearance of the sleuth at 221B Baker Street, audiences have been glued to the page and eager for more. The hype generated by this latest iteration of the famed ‘consulting detective’ is far from unprecedented. What better way to ring in the New Year than with the premiere of the latest series of the BBC’s Sherlock?
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