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Arthur Conan Doyle

Born

in Edinburgh, Scotland

May 22, 1859

Died

July 07, 1930

Website

https://conandoyleestate.com/

Genre

Fiction, Crime, Thriller

Influences

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Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a Scottish writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones in the field of crime fiction.

Doyle was a prolific writer. In addition to the Holmes stories, his works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger, and humorous stories about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels. One of Doyle's early short stories, "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" (1884), helped to popularise the mystery of the brigantine Mary Celeste, found drifting at sea wit ...more

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Arthur Conan Doyle’s books

Average rating: 4.16 · 2,870,469 ratings · 121,801 reviews · 16,314 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1) 4.13 avg rating — 502,556 ratings — published 1887 — 6483 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5) 4.13 avg rating — 395,495 ratings — published 1902 — 8175 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3) 4.30 avg rating — 330,154 ratings — published 1892 — 6729 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Sherlock Holmes 4.51 avg rating — 218,551 ratings — published 1887 — 872 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes, #2) 3.88 avg rating — 181,895 ratings — published 1890 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #4) 4.29 avg rating — 106,885 ratings — published 1893 — 2737 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Sherlock Holmes: Volume II by Arthur Conan Doyle, Kyle Freeman (Contributor) 4.48 avg rating — 82,226 ratings — published 1914 — 82 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #6) by Arthur Conan Doyle, Owen Dudley Edwards (Series Editor), Angus Wilson (Foreword), Richard Lancelyn Green (Editor) 4.27 avg rating — 71,737 ratings — published 1904 — 1003 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lost World (Professor Challenger, #1) by Arthur Conan Doyle, Michael Crichton (Introduction) 3.93 avg rating — 73,779 ratings — published 1912 — 3216 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Valley of Fear (Sherlock Holmes, #7) 3.96 avg rating — 56,739 ratings — published 1914 — 3384 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Which book would you like to read for our February 2015 Old School Classics group read?

1887, The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde, 126 pages

10 votes, 20.0%

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800, Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Unknown, 213 pages

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1853, Bleak House by Charles Dickens, 1017 pages

4 votes, 8.0%

1893, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, 321 pages

4 votes, 8.0%

1871, Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, 108 pages

3 votes, 6.0%

1767, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne, 588 pages

2 votes, 4.0%

1782, Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, 448 pages

2 votes, 4.0%

1795, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 396 pages

1 vote, 2.0%

1877, Black Beauty by Anna Sewell, 245 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

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