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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

1859–1930

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was a Scottish writer and physician, born in Edinburgh and educated in medicine at the University of Edinburgh. While studying there he was strongly influenced by the surgeon Dr Joseph Bell, whose remarkable powers of observation and deduction later helped inspire the character of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle worked as a ship’s doctor before establishing a medical practice in Southsea, but the growing success of his fiction eventually enabled him to become a full-time writer. Beyond literature, he took a keen interest in public affairs, campaigned against miscarriages of justice, wrote about the Boer War and the First World War, and was knighted in 1902. In his later years he became an increasingly committed advocate of spiritualism, lecturing and writing extensively on the subject.

Conan Doyle is best remembered as the creator of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, whose adventures comprise four novels — A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Valley of Fear — and fifty-six short stories. His writing, however, extended far beyond detective fiction. He regarded his historical fiction particularly highly, producing novels such as Micah Clarke, The White Company, The Great Shadow, The Refugees, Rodney Stone and Sir Nigel, while his Brigadier Gerard stories drew on the Napoleonic Wars. He also created Professor Challenger, most famously in The Lost World, and wrote adventure stories, plays, poetry, histories of contemporary wars, essays and numerous works on spiritualism and other public questions.

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Battle of Poitiers1356 CE Battle of Waterloo1815-06-18 British Raj1858–1947 CE Edwardian Society1901–1914 CE Gilded Age Americac. 1870–1900 CE Hundred Years’ War1337–1453 CE Indian Rebellion of 18571857–1858 CE July Crisis1914 Mahdist War1881–1899 Old West and Frontier America1803–1912 CE Reign of Louis XIV1643–1715 CE Victorian Crime1837–1901 Victorian London1837–1901 CE World War I1914–1918 CE

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Historical fiction series by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1 series)

Sherlock Holmes in Order

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 9 books 4.2(1,737,543)

Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes canon follows the consulting detective and Dr John Watson through four novels and five principal short-story collections. Beginning with their meeting in A Study in Scarlet, the sequence establishes Holmes’s method of close observation, forensic experiment and deductive reasoning as he investigates murder,…

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Standalone historical fiction by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (15 books)

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