Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was born in Edinburgh. He began writing as a medical student and at twenty had a story published in Chambers’ Edinburgh Journal. Sherlock Holmes first appeared in A Study in Scarlet (1887) and went on to feature in eight subsequent novels.
To replace Holmes, Conan Doyle created Etienne Gerard, whose memoirs were collected as The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard (1896) and its sequel, Adventures of Gerard.
Knighted in 1902, Conan Doyle produced more than 60 books in the course of his career but his greatest literary achievement lay in his short stories, unrivalled in the mingling of character, action and atmosphere.
Books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
