Arthur Conan Doyle

• Salem on Literature
• Related Resources
• Information, Facts, and Links
• Group

Browse all of the Salem on Literature series

Arthur Conan Doyle (Cyclopedia of World Authors)

To Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (doyuhl) goes the honor of having created one of the best-known and most popular characters in English literature. Sherlock Holmes, the gaunt and brilliant detective of 221B Baker Street, London, was brought to life by Doyle in fifty-six short stories and four novellas published between 1887 and 1927. Doyle’s tales of crime and detection have so enthralled readers that Sherlock Holmes (aided by stage, screen, radio, and television imitations) has become a permanent part of our language. Despite his literary debt to such earlier detective writers as Edgar...

[The entire page is 1895 words long]

Navigate

• Arthur Conan Doyle (Magill’s Choice: 100 Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction)
• Arthur Conan Doyle (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Arthur Conan Doyle (Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century)
• Arthur Conan Doyle (Magill’s Choice: Notable British Novelists)
• Arthur Conan Doyle (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)

See Also:

• Adventure of the Dancing Men, The (Short Stories)
• Adventure of the Speckled Band, The (Short Stories)
• Greek Interpreter, The (Short Stories)
• Hound of the Baskervilles, The (Masterplots Classics)
• Hound of the Baskervilles, The (Character Profiles)
• Hound of the Baskervilles, The (Literary Places)
• Land of Mist, The (Science Fiction)
• Lost World, The (Science Fiction)
• Micah Clarke (Masterplots Classics)
• Micah Clarke (Character Profiles)
• Red-Headed League, The (Short Stories)
• Scandal in Bohemia, A (Short Stories)
• Sign of Four, The (Masterplots Classics)
• Sign of Four, The (Character Profiles)
• Sign of Four, The (Literary Places)
• Study in Scarlet, A (Masterplots Classics)
• Study in Scarlet, A (Character Profiles)
• Study in Scarlet, A (Literary Places)
• White Company, The (Masterplots Classics)
• White Company, The (Character Profiles)
• Detective Novel, The (Topical Overview--Long Fiction)
• Fantasy Novel, The (Topical Overview--Long Fiction)
• Historical Novel, The (Topical Overview--Long Fiction)
• Detective Story, The (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)
• Science-Fiction Story, The (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)
• Supernatural Story, The (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)
• Theory of Short Fiction (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)