The leading UK popular fiction magazine of its era The Strand published most of the famous writers of its day, notably A. Conan Doyle (the 'Sherlock Holmes' short stories), W.W. Jacobs, H. G. Wells, E. Nesbit, Rudyard Kipling, A .E. W. Mason, Anthony Hope, O. Henry, P. G. Wodehouse, Gilbert Frankau, Agatha Christie, Sapper, Hugh Walpole, and Dorothy L. Sayers.
