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Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
(May 1859 – July 1930)
was a Scottish writer and physician, known as one of the greatest writers of crime fiction and particularly renowned for his Sherlock Holmes series.
He attended a Roman Catholic Jesuit school in Hodder Place, Stonyhurst and went on to study medicine
at the University of Edinburgh from 1876 to 1881, where he started writing stories in his free time.
Conan Doyle first published a story in a journal when he was 19.
Following his graduation, he sported a brief run as a ship doctor on the SS Mayumba during a voyage to the West African coast.
Following his graduation, he sported a brief run as a ship doctor on the SS Mayumba during a voyage to the West African coast.
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 and while his medicine career didn’t go all as planned –
The Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones in the field of crime fiction and while his medicine career didn’t go all as planned –
Conan Doyle himself writes in his autobiography that no single patient crossed the door of his ophthalmology practice, he quickly garnered the renown and praise of readers and critics alike for his Holmes stories.
Doyle was a prolific writer; other than 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 Mary Celeste.
In 1885 Doyle married Louisa (sometimes called "Touie") Hawkins (1857–1906). She was the youngest daughter of J. Hawkins, of Minsterworth, Gloucestershire, and the sister of one of Doyle's patients. Louisa had tuberculosis. In 1907, the year after Louisa's death, he married Jean Elizabeth Leckie (1874–1940). He had met and fallen in love with Jean in 1897, but had maintained a platonic relationship with her while his first wife was still alive, out of loyalty to her. Jean outlived him by ten years, and died in London.
Doyle fathered five children. He had two with his first wife: Mary Louise (1889–1976) and Arthur Alleyne Kingsley, known as Kingsley (1892–1918). He had an additional three with his second wife: Denis Percy Stewart (1909–1955), who became the second husband of Georgian Princess Nina Mdivani; Adrian Malcolm (1910–1970); and Jean Lena Annette (1912–1997). None of Doyle's five children had children of their own, so he has no living direct descendants.
~Wikipedia
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A Scandal in Bohemia (1891)
The Red-headed League (1891)
A Case of Identity (1891)
The Boscombe Valley Mystery (1891)
The Five Orange Pips (1891)
The Man with the Twisted Lip (1891)
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle (1892)
The Adventure of the Speckled Band (1892)
The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb (1892)
The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor (1892)
Adventure of the Beryl Coronet (1892)
The Adventure of the Copper Beeches (1892)
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
The Adventure of Silver Blaze (1892)
The Adventure of the Cardboard Box (1893)
The Adventure of the Yellow Face (1893)
The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk (1893)
The Adventure of the Gloria Scott (1893)
The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual (1893)
The Adventure of the Reigate Squire (1893)
The Adventure of the Crooked Man (1893)
The Adventure of the Resident Patient (1893)
The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter (1893)
The Adventure of the Naval Treaty (1893)
The Adventure of the Final Problem (1893)
The Field Bazaar (1896)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901)
The Adventure of the Cardboard Box (1893)
The Adventure of the Yellow Face (1893)
The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk (1893)
The Adventure of the Gloria Scott (1893)
The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual (1893)
The Adventure of the Reigate Squire (1893)
The Adventure of the Crooked Man (1893)
The Adventure of the Resident Patient (1893)
The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter (1893)
The Adventure of the Naval Treaty (1893)
The Adventure of the Final Problem (1893)
The Field Bazaar (1896)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901)
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
The Adventure of the Empty House (1903)
The Adventure of the Norwood Builder (1903)
The Adventure of the Dancing Men (1903)
The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist (1904)
The Adventure of the Priory School (1904)
The Adventure of Black Peter (1904)
The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton (1904)
The Adventure of the Six Napoleons (1904)
The Adventure of the Three Students (1904)
The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez (1904)
The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter (1904)
The Adventure of the Abbey Grange (1904)
The Adventure of the Second Stain (1904)
Sherlock Holmes - His Last Bow Books
The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge (1908)
The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans (1908)
The Adventure of the Devil's Foot (1910)
The Adventure of the Red Circle (1911)
The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax (1911)
The Adventure of the Dying Detective (1913)
The Valley of Fear (1914)
His Last Bow (1917)
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone (1921)
The Problem of Thor Bridge (1922)
The Adventure of the Creeping Man (1923)
The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire (1924)
How Watson Learned the Trick (1924)
The Adventure of the Three Garridebs (1925)
The Adventure of the Illustrious Client (1925)
The Adventure of the Three Gables (1926)
The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier (1926)
The Adventure of the Lion's Mane (1926)
The Adventure of the Retired Colourman (1927)
The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger (1927)
The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place (1927)
Sherlock Holmes Short Story Collections
A Case of Identity (1891)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892)
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1894)
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1905)
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927)
Gerard Short Story Collections
The Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard (1896)
The Adventures of Gerard (1903)
Professor Challenger Books
The Lost World (1912)
The Poison Belt (1913)
The Land of Mist (1926)
When the World Screamed (1928)
The Disintegration Machine (1929)
Standalone Novels
The Surgeon of Gaster Fell (1885)
The Mystery of Cloomber (1888)
Micah Clarke (1889)
The Firm of Girdlestone (1890)
The White Company (1891)
The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales (1892)
The Doings of Raffles Haw (1892)
Beyond the City (1892)
The Refugees (1893)
The Parasite (1894)
The Stark Munro Letters (1895)
Rodney Stone (1896)
Uncle Bernac (1897)
The Tragedy of the Korosko (1898)
A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus (1899)
Sir Nigel (1906)
The Maracot Deep (1929)
The Narrative of John Smith (2011)
Short Stories/Novellas
Lot No. 249 (1892)
The Adventure of the Cardboard Box (1893)
The Adventure of the Yellow Face (1893)
The Adventure of the Naval Treaty (1893)
The Adventure of the Final Problem (1893)
The Adventure of the Empty House (1903)
The Adventure of the Red Circle (1911)
The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax (1911)
The Problem of Thor Bridge (1922)
The Ring Of Thoth (1968)
John Barrington Cowles (2011)
The Case of Lady Sannox (2013)
A Literary Mosaic (2014)
That Little Square Box (2014)
The Crime of the Brigadier (2014)
The Croxley Master (2016)
The Gully of Bluemansdyke, and Other stories by Arthur Conan Doyle (2018)
Short Story Collections
The Captain of the Polestar (1883)
My Friend The Murderer And Other Mysteries And Adventures (1893)
Round the Red Lamp (1894)
The Green Flag and Other Stories of War and Sport (1900)
Round the Fire Stories (1908)
The Last Galley (1911)
Danger! And Other Stories (1918)
The Great Keinplatz Experiment (1919)
Tales Of Adventure And Medical Life (1920)
Tales Of Pirates And Blue Water (1922)
Dealings of Captain Sharkey and Other Tales of Pirates (1925)
The Man from Archangel and Other Tales of Adventure (2009)
Non-Fiction Books
The Great Boer War (1900)
The War in South Africa, Its Cause and Conduct (1902)
Through the Magic Door (1907)
The Crime of the Congo (1909)
The Case Of Oscar Slater (1912)
The New Revelation (1917)
The Vital Message (1919)
The British Campaign in France and Flanders 1915 (1920)
The Wanderings of a Spiritualist (1921)
The Coming of the Fairies (1921)
Memories and Adventures and Western Wanderings (1924)
The History of Spiritualism (1926)
The Edge of the Unknown (1930)
Dangerous Work (2012)
Murderous Christmas Stories
Murder under the Christmas Tree: Ten Classic Crime Stories for the Festive Season (2016)
Murder on Christmas Eve (2017)
A Very Murderous Christmas: Ten Classic Crime Stories for the Festive Season (2018)
Anthologies
Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1979)
Rivals of Sherlock Holmes 2 (1979)
Tantalizing Locked Room Mysteries (1982)
Great Law and Order Stories (1990)
Crime Never Pays (2001)
On Glorious Wings (2003)
Flight or Fright (2018)
The Edinburgh Mystery: And Other Tales of Scottish Crime (2023)