Strand Magazine - Definition

The Strand Magazine was a monthly fiction magazine founded by George Newnes. It was published in the United Kingdom from 1890 to March, 1950. The Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle were first published in The Strand. Other contributors included Grant Allen, Margery Allingham, E.C. Bentley, Agatha Christie, W.W. Jacobs, Rudyard Kipling, Dorothy L. Sayers, Georges Simenon, Edgar Wallace, P. G. Wodehouse, and even Winston Churchill. Once a sketch drawn by Queen Victoria of one of her children appeared with her permision.

A new quarterly version focusing on Mystery of The Strand first appeared in December, 1998 and is still published as of as of 2004.

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