![]() ![]() Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died in Sussex in 1930. Sir Arthur-he had been knighted for this defense of the British cause in his The Great Boer War-became an ardent Spiritualist after the death of his son Kingsley, who had been wounded at the Somme in World War I. Once, wearying of Holmes, his creator killed him off, but was forced by popular demand to resurrect him. Fifty-nine more Sherlock Holmes adventures followed. After several rejections, the story was sold to a British publisher for £25, and thus was born the world’s best-known and most-loved fictional detective. ![]() ![]() Conan Doyle may have been influenced also by his admiration for the neat plots of Gaboriau and for Poe’s detective, M. Joseph Bell of the Edinburgh Infirmary, a man with spectacular powers of observation, analysis, and inference. His detective, Sherlock Holmes, was modeled in part after Dr. Hoping to augment his income, he wrote his first story, A Study in Scarlet. He then became an eye specialist in Southsea, with a distressing lack of success. In the spring of 1894, as Watson investigates the murder of the Honourable Ronald Adair, the maid announces a visitor. After nine years in Jesuit schools, he went to Edinburgh University, receiving a degree in medicine in 1881. These stories were also published in the Strand Magazine from 1903 to 1904 and later compiled into this book. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859. Published in 1905, 'The Return of Sherlock Holmes' by Arthur Conan Doyle is a book containing 13 stories about Sherlock Holmes and his partner Dr John Watson. ![]()
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