Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde

Of this event, Arthur later said ‘It was indeed a golden evening for me. Wilde …had an art of seeming to be interested in all we could say’.

Oscar Wilde was just one of the many writers who influenced Conan Doyle, others include Sir Walter Scott, Edgar Allan Poe, Emile Gaborian, Rider Haggard and Robert Louis Stevenson.”
The magazine in question was 'Lippincott's Monthly Magazine".

The Sign of Four was published in 1890 and is the second novel to feature Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. The Portrait of Dorian Gray is a gothic and philosophical novel also published in 1890 by Oscar Wilde. This is the only novel written by Oscar Wilde.