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The first of Sherlock Holmes's adventures
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 in Edinburgh. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and began to write stories while he was a student.Over his life he produced more than thirty books, 150 short stories, poems, plays and essays across a wide range of genres.His most famous creation is the detective Sherlock Holmes, who he introduced in his first novel A Study in Scarlet (1887). This was followed in 1889 by an historical novel, Micah Clarke. In 1893 Conan Doyle published 'The Final Problem' in which he killed off his famous detective so that he could turn his attention more towards historical fiction. However Holmes was so popular that Conan Doyle eventually relented and published The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1901. The events of the The Hound of the Baskervilles are set before those of 'The Final Problem' but in 1903 new Sherlock Holmes stories began to appear that revealed that the detective had not died after all. He was finally retired in 1927. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died on 7 July 1930.
Arthur Conan Doyle is unique in simultaneously bringing the curtain
down on an era and raising one on another, ushering in a genre of
writing that, while imitated and expanded, has never been
surpassed
*Stephen Fry*
I first encountered him through an eccentric maths teacher who
would read 'The Speckled Band' and other Conan Doyle adventures to
us instead of teaching fractions. He also used to balance chairs on
his chin, but that's another story. I'm still fond of Holmes to
this day, especially now that I can see him as the crazed,
controlling junkie that he clearly was
*Mark Billingham*
A wonderful Sherlock Holmes story from its sparkling first pages,
through its vivid painting of darkest Dartmoor, its undertones of
fear of the mind's depths, and on to the triumph of the
rational
*The Times*
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*
A Victorian whodunnit of brooding power
*Guardian*
Arthur Conan Doyle is unique in simultaneously bringing the curtain
down on an era and raising one on another, ushering in a genre of
writing that, while imitated and expanded, has never been surpassed
-- Stephen Fry
I first encountered him through an eccentric maths teacher who
would read 'The Speckled Band' and other Conan Doyle adventures to
us instead of teaching fractions. He also used to balance chairs on
his chin, but that's another story. I'm still fond of Holmes to
this day, especially now that I can see him as the crazed,
controlling junkie that he clearly was -- Mark Billingham
A wonderful Sherlock Holmes story from its sparkling first pages,
through its vivid painting of darkest Dartmoor, its undertones of
fear of the mind's depths, and on to the triumph of the rational *
The Times *
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
A Victorian whodunnit of brooding power * Guardian *
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