Arthur Conan Doyleand his character Sherlock Holmes

At 10 was sent to a Roman Catholic Boarding School

Went to school in Austria and founded a newspaper.
Studied Medicine at Edinburgh Collage where he meet Joseph Bell.

Joseph
Bell

to Africa filling a medical post on a ship.
After finishing

his last school year Doyle married Louise Hawkins. In 1906 him and his two children mourned her death.
Within a year he married Jean Leckie.

reading wants.
In 1885 he wrote, “A Study in Scarlet”

the first Sherlock Holmes book.
Holmes was based on his collage friend Joseph Bell, and Waston based on himself.

first book.

stories in three months for The Strand, a news magazine.

1896 He wrote twelve more stories, growing tired of his new character.
In the next six he ended with a story entitled “The Final Problem” in which Sherlock goes over the falls while wrestling with Prof. Moriarty, a criminal.

to recreate the detective.
Doyle then wrote “The Hound of

the Baskervilles” and dated it five years before Sherlock’s death.
Arthur Conan Doyle finally explained the detective’s reappearance in “The Empty House” in which Holmes appears and claims that he used the advantage of his assumed death to travel around the world as an explorer named Sigerson.

more short stories, all featuring Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle

died quietly on July 7th, 1930, surrounded by family and friends.
Today, Doyle is remembered almost solely by his writings of Sherlock Holmes.