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Arthur Conan Doyle


Born
in Edinburgh, Scotland, The United Kingdom
May 22, 1859

Died
July 07, 1930

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Genre
Fiction, Crime, Thriller

Influences
Edgar Allan Poe, Joseph McCabe, Jules Verne, Walter Scott, Thomas Babi ...more


Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones in the field of crime fiction.
Doyle was a prolific writer. In addition to the Holmes stories, his works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger, and humorous stories about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels. One of Doyle's early short stories, "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" (1884), helped to popularise the mystery of the brigantine Mary Celeste, found drifting at sea with ...more

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A Study in Scarlet (Sherloc...
4.14 avg rating — 474,329 ratings — published 1887 — 6599 editions
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The Adventures of Sherlock ...
4.30 avg rating — 316,560 ratings — published 1892 — 3495 editions
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes
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The Sign of Four (Sherlock ...
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Hol...
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“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
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“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
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“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
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The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, 1939, 479 pages
 
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