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Sir Conan Doyle(1859-1930).Best known as the creator of the brilliant amateur sleuth Sherlock Holmes and his side-kick Dr Watson,Conan Doyle's stories,with their ingenious plots and wonderful sense of late-Victorian England,are still read the world over.
Born in Edinburgh in 1859,the son of a civil servant,Arther Conan Doyle was educated at Stonyhurts School and then spent a year in Austria before taking a degree in medicine at Edinburgh University.He later drew on the method of diagnosis used by one of his professors for basis of Sherlock Holmes's own deduction methods to aproach to solving mysteries.Conan Doyle graduated in 1885 and set up as a doctor in Southeast.In order to suppliment his income and fill in the quiet moments at work,he started to write detective stories.A Study in Scarlet,which appeared in 1887,introduced the hawk-eyed detective whose popular appearences in stories such as The Sign of Four turned both him and his creator into hosehold names.Many short stories,such az "A Case of Identity","The Man With the Twisted Lip" and"The Copper Beeches" were first published in the Strand Magazine and then in 1892 collected as The Adventures of Sharlock Holmes.A further selection of stories was collected in Memoires of S Holms(1894).Conan Doyle's other novels and stories were often overshadowed by his his most famous creation and in December 1893,he killed off Holmes(togather with the arch-remenal Professor Morarty)in a drama set in Austria.Holmes was later resurrected in The Hound of the Baskervilles(1902),when Conan Doyle succumbed to public pressure and revealed that the sleuth had been able to cheat death after all.Further collections of stories were published as The Return of S Holmes,His Bow and The Case-Book of S Holmes.With his growing success as an author,Conan Doyle was able to give up his practice and concentrate on many other things.He was a passionate advocate for causes as diverse as divorse law reform, the Channel Tunnel and the issuing of steel helmets to soldiers and inflatable life jakets to sailors.He was also a great campaigner on behalf of individuals wrongly imprizoned,and his work on Edalji case was instrumental in the introduction of the Court of Criminal Appeal.He was knighted in 1902 for his defence of british policy in the South African was.After the the deth of his son as a resolt of a wound in the First World Wor,Conan Doyle became spiritualist and his later work such as The Wanderings is heavily concerned with this,He died in 1930
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was the first collection of stories about the Beker Street detective to be brought togather in one volume.It first appeared in 1892.
Born in Edinburgh in 1859,the son of a civil servant,Arther Conan Doyle was educated at Stonyhurts School and then spent a year in Austria before taking a degree in medicine at Edinburgh University.He later drew on the method of diagnosis used by one of his professors for basis of Sherlock Holmes's own deduction methods to aproach to solving mysteries.Conan Doyle graduated in 1885 and set up as a doctor in Southeast.In order to suppliment his income and fill in the quiet moments at work,he started to write detective stories.A Study in Scarlet,which appeared in 1887,introduced the hawk-eyed detective whose popular appearences in stories such as The Sign of Four turned both him and his creator into hosehold names.Many short stories,such az "A Case of Identity","The Man With the Twisted Lip" and"The Copper Beeches" were first published in the Strand Magazine and then in 1892 collected as The Adventures of Sharlock Holmes.A further selection of stories was collected in Memoires of S Holms(1894).Conan Doyle's other novels and stories were often overshadowed by his his most famous creation and in December 1893,he killed off Holmes(togather with the arch-remenal Professor Morarty)in a drama set in Austria.Holmes was later resurrected in The Hound of the Baskervilles(1902),when Conan Doyle succumbed to public pressure and revealed that the sleuth had been able to cheat death after all.Further collections of stories were published as The Return of S Holmes,His Bow and The Case-Book of S Holmes.With his growing success as an author,Conan Doyle was able to give up his practice and concentrate on many other things.He was a passionate advocate for causes as diverse as divorse law reform, the Channel Tunnel and the issuing of steel helmets to soldiers and inflatable life jakets to sailors.He was also a great campaigner on behalf of individuals wrongly imprizoned,and his work on Edalji case was instrumental in the introduction of the Court of Criminal Appeal.He was knighted in 1902 for his defence of british policy in the South African was.After the the deth of his son as a resolt of a wound in the First World Wor,Conan Doyle became spiritualist and his later work such as The Wanderings is heavily concerned with this,He died in 1930
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was the first collection of stories about the Beker Street detective to be brought togather in one volume.It first appeared in 1892.
