As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Affiliate disclosure.

Home / People / Arthur Conan Doyle

Historical person

Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle was a Scottish physician and writer whose creation of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson transformed detective fiction. Born in Edinburgh in 1859, he studied medicine before combining medical practice with an increasingly successful literary career.

Doyle trained and worked as a physician before literary success allowed him to write full time. Beyond the Sherlock Holmes stories, he produced historical fiction, science fiction and campaigning journalism, and later became a prominent public advocate of spiritualism.

In Gyles Brandreth’s Jack the Ripper, Police official Melville Macnaghten brings Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle into a renewed investigation of the Whitechapel murders. In Edward Marston’s Murder on the Celtic, But few names have quite the level of fame and fortune as their fellow traveller Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Arthur Conan Doyle is treated fictionally in Gyles Brandreth’s The Candlelight Murders, Gyles Brandreth’s The Nest of Vipers, David Liss’ The Peculiarities, Gyles Brandreth’s The Ring of Death, and Gyles Brandreth’s The Vatican Murders.

Series

Historical novels and book series featuring Arthur Conan Doyle (2 series)

Ocean Liner Mysteries in Order

by Edward Marston 8 books 4.5(4,005)

The Ocean Liner Mysteries follow ship detectives George Dillman and Genevieve Masefield on real passenger liners between 1907 and 1910. Working discreetly among wealthy travellers, emigrants, crew members and habitual thieves, they investigate crimes aboard vessels including Lusitania, Mauretania, Caronia, Oceanic and Celtic. Each voyage creates a closed…

All books in this series

Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries in Order

by Gyles Brandreth 7 books 4.3(4,701)

The Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries turn the writer and wit Oscar Wilde into an amateur detective, usually working beside Arthur Conan Doyle. Set between 1883 and 1897, the seven novels combine fictional crimes with people, places and episodes drawn from Wilde’s life, moving through Victorian London, theatrical Paris,…

All books in this series

Standalone books

Standalone books featuring Arthur Conan Doyle (1 book)