Such was their hunger that Doyle ended up being very well-paid indeed – and Holmes and Watson defied the death he had sent them to, and ended up retiring instead.īut which of the famous tales to begin with? Here's our take on the best way to navigate the Sherlock Holmes stories. So Doyle turned to financial incentive in lieu of creative stasis, urging publishers to cough up for more Holmes stories. He takes my mind from better things." His mother – inadvertently representing the voices of fiction fans the world over – was outraged. It even got to a point that Doyle himself was sick of his creation, writing to his mother in 1891: "I think of slaying Holmes. Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born the third of ten siblings on in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was 27 when he wrote A Study in Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson's debut, in just three weeks.įrom that humble beginning, three Sherlock novels and five collections of short stories emerged. Fancy yourself a smart dresser Then try the most iconic detective in literary history on for size. A delight for a public which enjoys incident, mystery, and above all that matching of the wits of a clever man against the dumb resistance of the secrecy of inanimate. You can also read the full text online using our ereader. Arthur Conan Doyle created Sherlock Holmes in 1887, in the midst of a career as a doctor and botanist. This book is available for free download in a number of formats - including epub, pdf, azw, mobi and more.
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