sentences:  Then, in 1893, it was converted into a limited company with the title of Ward Lock and Bowden Ltd.”
  
  In the 1887 "Beeton's Christmas Annual" (published in November) Arthur Conan Doyle's first detective novel, "A Study in Scarlet", was published, introducing the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend and chronicler Dr. Watson.Ward Lock and Bowden's business in New York and Melbourne were doing well and in the mid-1890s, the company opened an office in Toronto, Canada; however, this was closed in 1919.The books published by the firm reflected the changes in English life.