Physician & Man of Letters “Steel True, Blade Straight” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Knight, Patriot, Physician & Man of Letters

Did he write only about Sherlock Homes? What kind of man was A. Conan Doyle? How many secrets there are in his life!

The main aim of our work is to investigate the writer's life, full of secrets and mysteries and expose some myths about his most famous character, the detective Sherlock Holmes.

To achieve this goal we have solved the following tasks: 1. Get acquainted with the most important pages in the biography of the writer sir Arthur Conan Doyle 2. Expose some myths about Sherlock Holmes 3.Find the answer to the question why the author was called “a great falsifier” To draw a conclusion about why the hero A. Doyle became internationally popular 4. To draw a conclusion about why the hero of A. Conan Doyle became internationally popular

List of the most common Irish surnames Our theoretical part List of the most common Irish surnames Mac Loughlin Mac Gowan Murphy Clarк Macbride Mullan Moloney Kennedy Collins Óbrien О'Neil Doyle Ireland

St. Mary’s Cathedral in Edinburgh Arthur Conan Doyle was born 22 May 1859 in the capital of Scotland, Edinburgh. Arthur 4 years St. Mary’s Cathedral in Edinburgh

Charles Altamont Doyle Arthur Conan Doyle’s parents his mother Mary Doyle His father Charles Altamont Doyle

1866-1876 At the age of seven A. Conan Doyle began his education at Newington Academy in Edinburgh

In 1876, Arthur Conan Doyle began to study medicine at the University of Edinburgh. Dr. Joseph Bell (1837-1911) Arthur Conan Doyle

In 1886, he wrote a novella, A Study in Scarlet, which introduced the character of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Myths 1 “Sherlock Holmes’ hat and pipe” Sidney Paget

Myths 2 “It’s elementary, Watson!” English Satirist Palem Woodhouse

Myths 3 “Only A. Conan Doyle wrote about Sherlock Holmes” Stephen King Franklin Delano Roosevelt Briton Anthony Horowitz

The most famous falsification of the 20th century connected with sir Arthur Conan Doyle 2016 : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle cleared of the hoax connected with the Piltdown Man. The Cottingley fairies

“My favourite fictional character- The Drawing Contest “My favourite fictional character- Sherlock Holmes” Our practical part

The results of the survey 1. What is this literary character’s name?

2. Who was the author of the detective story in which he was the main hero? (Who wrote about this hero?)

3.Have you ever read the stories about this hero?

Conclusion physician active Spiritualist sportsman war correspondent author of historical novels active Spiritualist sportsman Sir Arthur Conan Doyle war correspondent creator of Sherlock Holmes

“Arthur Conan Doyle was, arguably, Britain's last national writer.” Douglas Kerr Complete Works Sir A. Conan Doyle read

BIBLIOGRAPHY 1. A. C. Doyle “The adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, 1892 2. D. Friedman, E. Friedman “The Strange case of Dr. Doyle: a journey into madness and mayhem (The secret life of A.C. Doyle)”, 2015 3. D. Friedman “Teller of the tales: the life of Arthur Conan Doyle”, 1999 4. R. Miller “The adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle: A Biography”, 2008 5. http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/doyle/bio.html