In addition, Conan Doyle wrote a number of other novels, including The Lost World and various non-fictional works. A public outcry later made him resurrect Holmes. Its success encouraged Conan Doyle to write more stories involving Holmes but, in 1893, Conan Doyle killed off Holmes, hoping to concentrate on more serious writing. Sherlock Holmes made his first appearance in A Study of Scarlet, published in 'Beeton's Christmas Annual' in 1887.
He then settled in Portsmouth on the English south coast and divided his time between medicine and writing. He worked as a surgeon on a whaling boat and also as a medical officer on a steamer travelling between Liverpool and West Africa. He trained as a doctor, gaining his degree from Edinburgh University in 1881. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died on 7 July 1930.Īrthur Conan Doyle was born on in Edinburgh into a prosperous Irish family. The events of the The Hound of the Baskervilles are set before those of 'The Final Problem' but in 1903 new Sherlock Holmes stories began to appear that revealed that the detective had not died after all.
However Holmes was so popular that Conan Doyle eventually relented and published The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1901.
In 1893 Conan Doyle published 'The Final Problem' in which he killed off his famous detective so that he could turn his attention more towards historical fiction. This was followed in 1889 by an historical novel, Micah Clarke. His most famous creation is the detective Sherlock Holmes, who he introduced in his first novel A Study in Scarlet (1887). He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and began to write stories while he was a student.Over his life he produced more than thirty books, 150 short stories, poems, plays and essays across a wide range of genres. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born on in Edinburgh.
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