1. Sir Arthur Сonan Doyle

2. Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a Scottish and England physician and writer

3. Mary Doyle, His mother, had a passion for books and was a master storyteller. Her son Arthur wrote of his mother's gift of "sinking her voice to a horror- stricken whisper" when she reached the culminating point of a story.

4. ` After Arthur reached his ninth birthday, the wealthy members of the Doyle family offered to pay for his studies. He was in tears all the way to England, where for seven years he had to go to a Jesuit boarding school.

5. Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 in Edinburg, Scotland. While studying, Conan Doyle also began writing short stories; his first published story appeared in Champers's Edinburg Journal before he was 20.

6. In 1885 Conan Doyle married Louise Hawkins, and had two children with her, before she died after a protracted illness in 1900. In 1907 he remarried, to Jeanne Leckie, and had three more children with her.

7. He is most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction

8. Short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes were published in the English Stand Magazine. moved to London in 1891 to set up a practice as an ophthalmologist. He wrote in his autobiography that not a single patient crossed his door. This gave him more time for writing, and in November 1891 he wrote to his mother: "I think of slaying Holmes... and winding him up for good and all. He takes my mind from better things." His mother responded, "You may do what you deem fit, but the crowds will not take this lightheartedly.“ The stories proved enormously successful, but Conan Doyle tired of his own creation, and in 1894 he killed Holmes off in The Final Problem.

9. But Conan Doyle did not confine himself to Sherlock Holmes; he wrote several popular works of historic fiction, including Micah Clarke The White Company Rodney Stone Sir Nigel

10. Conan Doyle served as a doctor in the Boer War, and on his return he wrote two books defending England's participation in that conflict. It was for these books that he received his knighthood in 1902.

11. After the death of his son in World War I, Conan Doyle became interested in spiritualism. He was convinced that it was possible to communicate with the dead, and his views led to a certain amount of ridicule from more mainstream society.

12. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died on July 7, 1930, and is buried in the churchyard at Minstead Hampshire. He can rightly be credited with helping create the literary genre of the detective story. Though Edgar Allen Poe's Dupin predates Sherlock Holmes, it was the Holmes' stories that solidified in the public mind what a good detective should be.