Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
 Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859, in Edinburgh, Scotland, to Irish parents Charles Altamont Doyle and Mary Doyle. He was sent to the Roman Catholic Jesuit preparatory school, St Marys Hall, Stonyhurst at the age of nine years old.
He then went on to Stonyhurst College, but by the time he left the school in 1875, he had rejected Christianity to become an agnostic.
From 1876 to 1881 he studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, including a period working in the town of Aston (now a district of Birmingham). Following his term at university he served as a ship's doctor on a voyage to the West African coast, and then in 1882 he set up a practice in Plymouth.
He achieved his doctorate concerning Tabes Dorsalis in 1885.
His medical practice was not very successful; while waiting for patients, he began writing stories. His first literary experience came in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal before he was 20.
It was only after he met his best friend Jarren and moved his practice to Portsmouth that Doyle began to indulge more extensively in literature. His first significant work was A Study in Scarlet, which appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual for 1887 and featured the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes, who was partially modelled after Conan Doyle's former university professor, Joseph Bell.
Interestingly, Rudyard Kipling congratulated Conan Doyle on his success, asking "Could this be my old friend, Dr. Joe?". Sherlock Holmes, however, was even more closely modelled after the famous Edgar Allan Poe character, C. Auguste Dupin. While living in Southsea he helped form Portsmouth AFC, the city's first football club. Common myth holds that Conan Doyle played as Portsmouth F.C.'s first goalkeeper; however, Conan Doyle played for an amateur side that disbanded in 1894 and had no connection to the Portsmouth F.C. of today which was not formed until 1898 (the first goalkeeper of the professional team was Matt Reilly).
In 1885 he married Louisa (or Louise) Hawkins, known as "Touie", who suffered from tuberculosis and eventually died in 1906.[2] He married Jean Leckie in 1907, whom he had first met and fallen in love with in 1897 but had maintained a platonic relationship with her out of loyalty to his first wife. Conan Doyle had five children, two with his first wife (Mary and Kingsley), and three with his second wife (Jean, Denis, and Adrian).
While Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had many other literary successes he will undoubtable remain best known for His Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes.
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Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Volume I, The
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Volume III, The
Case Book of Sherlock Holmes, The
Copper Beeches, The
Disappearance of Lady Carfax, The
Dying Detective, The Adventure of the
Empty House, The Adventure of the
Four Short Stories
Gloria Scott, The Adventure of the
Greek Interpreter, The Adventure of the
His Last Bow Hound of the Baskervilles, The
Hound of the Baskervilles, The
Hound of the Baskervilles, The .
Man with the Twisted Lip, The
Mazarin Stone, The
Missing Three-Quarter, The
Noble Bachelor
Poison Belt and Other Stories, The
Problem of Thor Bridge,
The Red-Headed League, The
Return of Sherlock Holmes I
Return of Sherlock Holmes II, The
Sherlock Holmes: Adventure of The Devil's Foot
Sherlock Holmes: His Last Bow
Sherlock Holmes: Shoscombe Old Place
Sherlock Holmes: The Lion's Mane
Sherlock Holmes: A Case of Identity
Sherlock Holmes: A Scandal in Bohemia
Sherlock Holmes: A Scandal in Bohemia
Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet
Sherlock Holmes: Adventure of The Abbey Grange
Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of Black Peter
Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet
Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier
Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of The Bruce-Partington Plans
Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of The Creeping Man
Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Illustrious Client
Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of The Norwood Builder
Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of The Priory School
Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of The Retired Colourman
Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist
Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire and Other Stories
Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of The Three Students
Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge
Sherlock Holmes: The Adventures of the Lion's Mane and Other Stories
Sherlock Holmes: The Boscombe Valley Mystery
Sherlock Holmes: The Cardboard Box
Sherlock Holmes: The Engineer's Thumb
Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure
Sherlock Holmes: The Final Problem
Sherlock Holmes: The Five Orange Pips
Sherlock Holmes: The Golden Pince-Nez
Sherlock Holmes: The Leather Funnel
Sherlock Holmes: The Musgrave Ritual
Sherlock Holmes: The Naval Treaty
Sherlock Holmes: The Red Circle
Sherlock Holmes: The Resident Patient
Sherlock Holmes: The Second Stain
Sherlock Holmes: The Speckled Band
Sherlock Holmes: The Speckled Band
Sherlock Holmes: The Veiled Lodger
Sherlock Holmes: The Yellow Face
Silver Blaze
Six Napoleons, The
Stockbroker's Clerk, The Adventure of the Study in Scarlet, A
Sussex Vampire, The
Tales For A Winter's Night
Tales of Terror and Mystery
Three Gables, The Adventure of the
Three Garridebs, The Adventure of the
Valley of Fear - Part 1: The Birlstone Mystery
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