About the Author

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle(1859-1930) was born in Edinburgh. After receiving a medical degree from Edinburgh University in 1881, he became an eye specialist in Southsea, with a distressing lack of success. Hoping to augment his income, he wrote his first detective story,A Study in Scarlet. Fifty-nine more Sherlock Holmes adventures followed.

Michael Dirdais aPulitzer Prize-winning book critic for theWashington Post.He is the author of two collections of literary journalism and several books on authors and reading, includingOn Conan Doyle- Or, The Whole Art of Storytelling, which received the 2012 Edgar Awardin the Best Critical/Biographical category.

Reviews

Every writer owes something to Holmes
*T. S. Eliot*

[Holmes] is probably the only literary creation since the creations of Dickens which has really passed into the life and language of the people
*G. K. Chesterton*

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