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I do not know how many original copies of the 1887 Beeton's Christmas Annual including the first publication of 'A Study in Scarlet' sold, but my best guess would be around 30,000.

The link below reports there are only 31 known copies of that original publication in existence.

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According to the first link below, there were about 57,000 copies of Sherlock Holmes books sold in 2009 and about 88,000 in 2010 with another increase in 2011. It would be impossible to know much more than that without extensive research though the second link below does not include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in its list of best-selling fiction authors with a minimum total sales of 90 million.

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote 56 short stories and four novels on Sherlock Holmes.

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There are several documented at the link below if you care to count them. It is an exhaustive bibliography of all things Sherlockian.

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