Doyle, Arthur Conan
Doyle, Arthur Conan ( 1859 – 1930 ),educated at Stonyhurst and Edinburgh; he became a doctor and practised at Southsea, 1882 – 90 . He is chiefly remembered for his widely celebrated creation of the subtle, hawk-eyed amateur detective Sherlock Holmes , whose brilliant solutions to a wide variety of crimes began in A Study in Scarlet ( 1887 ), continued through a long line of stories, chiefly in the Strand Magazine , and were collected in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ( 1892 ), The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes ( 1894 ), The Hound of the Baskervilles ( 1902 ), and other works. His friend and foil, the stolid Dr Watson with whom he shares rooms in Baker Street, attends him throughout most of his adventures. (See detective fiction .) As well as his ‘Holmes’ stories, Doyle wrote a long series of historical and other romances. Notable among them are Micah Clarke ( 1889 ),...
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