Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and medical doctor. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 when he published A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and more than fifty short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. 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. |
Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature. -Arthur Conan Doyle
Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature. Arthur Conan Doyle
When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. Arthur Conan Doyle
I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children. Arthur Conan Doyle