About Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was born in Edinburgh, in Scotland. He studied medicine and worked as a doctor for eight years. Then he started writing in order to earn more
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About Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle (1859-1930) was born in Edinburgh, in Scotland. He
studied medicine and worked as a doctor for eight years. Then he started writing in order to earn more money, and soon people were reading his stories in weekly magazines.
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His First Detectives In the opening pages of his
first novel, A Study in Scarlet (1887), Sherlock Holmes
appeared for the first time – a strange, coldly, intelligent detective, who smokes a pipe, plays the violin, and lives at 221B Baker Street in London. He can find the answer to almost any problem, and enjoys explaining how easy it is to his slow-thinking friend, Dr. Watson. Readers began to show great interest in Holmes when The Sign of Four was published in 1890, and short stories about him, in The Strand Magazine, were very popular.
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His writing style Conan Doyle himself preferred writing novels
about history, like The White Company(1891), and he soon
became bored with the Sherlock Holmes character. So, in The Final Problem(1893) he killed him off, when Holmes and his famous enemy, Moriarty , fell to their deaths in the Reichenbach Falls. But because people kept asking for more stories about Holmes, Conan Doyle, rather unwillingly, had to bring him back to life, in one of his most exciting and popular stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles(1902)
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His Famous Detectives The Sign of Four The Hound of
the Baskervilles The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes A Study in Scarlet Memoirs
of Sherlock Holmes Valley of fear Lost World Speckled Band