The 'Gloria Scott'

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"The Adventure of the Gloria Scott" is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, collected in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in The Strand Magazine and Harper's Weekly in April 1893.
 
 Chronologically the earliest case in the Holmes canon, it's mainly narrated by Holmes himself. The story involves Holmes's university friend Victor Trevor and his father, a wealthy landowner who made his fortune in Australia. Holmes uncovers a dark secret from the elder Trevor's past involving someone with the initials "J. A.," revealing a hidden crime that still haunts him.

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Arthur Conan Doyle, born in Edinburgh in 1859, was a trained doctor who balanced his medical career with writing. He is best known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, who first appeared in A Study in Scarlet in 1887. The detective's popularity grew rapidly, though Doyle famously attempted to end the character's run in 1893 to focus on more serious work. Public demand led him to revive Holmes, and he went on to write dozens of stories featuring the iconic sleuth. Doyle also wrote historical novels and non-fiction, but it is Holmes who remains his most enduring legacy.

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