"A Scandal in Bohemia" was the first of Arthur Conan Doyle's 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories to be published in The Strand Magazine. Doyle ranked "A Scandal in Bohemia" fifth in his list of his twelve favorite Holmes stories. It was first published on June 25, 1891, and was, later, the first of the stories collected in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes in 1892.