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(1859-1930)
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English Author
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The father of Sherlock Holmes...
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Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Doyle is the descendant of
an aristocratic and intellectual Irish family.
He graduated as a physician from the University of
Edinburgh in 1885. One of his professors, Dr. Joseph Bell,
was to serve as a model for Sherlock Holmes.
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The creator of Sherlock Holmes, the world famous
detective,served as a physician in the Boer War
(1899-1902).
He published his first
Sherlock Holmes tale, A Study in Scarlet, in 1887 and wrote
a total of 56 short stories and four Sherlock Holmes novels
over the following 40 years.
Later, Doyle
had close interest in spiritualism and wrote A History of
Spiritualism in 1926.
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The legendary detective
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was famous for his incredible powers of observation and deduction
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Sherlock Holmes resolved the most intricate crimes and
mysteries, assisted by his inseparable
friend, Dr. Watson. He operated from his
house of 221B Baker Street in London. Sherlock
Holmes encountered an immediate large
popular success and became almost a real
historical figure.
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