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Early career
Arthur Conan Doyle
May 22, 1859
Edinburgh, Scotland
His father was English and his mother was Irish.
From 1876 to 1881, Doyle studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh Medical School.
While studying, Doyle began wriJng short storiies. In 1887 he published A study in Scarlet the first of four detecJve novels featuring Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson .
Wri7ng career
ANer a Study in Scarlet he wrote 4 novels and 56 short stories that were collected in the volumes The adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) and The memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1894). ANer 26 successful stories Doyle became Jred of his famous character and decided to kill him in the story The final problem (1893). Fans were shocked and furious so Conan Doyle revived Holmes in 1902 in the The Hounds of the baskerville. Doyle was a prolific writer , he also wrote science ficJon and historical novels.
He died on 7th July 1930.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Died
The science of deduc7on
Sherlock Holmes is the world’s most famous ficJonal private detecJve. Edgar Allan Poe’s Auguste Dupin is generally considered as the first detecJve in ficJon and was the prototype for many that were created later, including Holmes. Conan Doyle once wrote: "Each [of Poe's detecJve stories] is a root from which a whole literature has developed...
Readers loved Sherlock Holmes because he was very intelligent and, thanks to his logical reasoning, solved mysteries in a scienJfic way . Holmes himself explains to his friend Dr. Watson that his "science of detecJon" is based on a`enJon on detail, analysis and deducJon. As he says: "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth".[