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Arthur Conan Doyle


Born
in Edinburgh, Scotland, The United Kingdom
May 22, 1859

Died
July 07, 1930

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Genre
Fiction, Crime, Thriller

Influences
Edgar Allan Poe, Joseph McCabe, Jules Verne, Walter Scott, Thomas Babi ...more


A series of stories, including The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902), of known British writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle chiefly features Sherlock Holmes, the brilliant detective.

Mary Foley, an Irish mother, bore Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, the third of ten siblings, to Charles Altamont Doyle, a talented English illustrator of Irish descent.

Although people now refer to as "Conan Doyle" despite the uncertain origin of this understood compound surname. His baptism record in the registry of cathedral of Saint Mary in Edinburgh gives "Arthur Ignatius Conan" as his Christian name, and simply "Doyle" as his surname. It also names Michael Conan as his godfather.

At the age of nine years in 1868, parents sent Arthur Conan Doyle to Hodder plac ...more

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Average rating: 4.17 · 2,522,458 ratings · 98,212 reviews · 11,807 distinct works • Similar authors
A Study in Scarlet (Sherloc...
4.14 avg rating — 443,827 ratings — published 1887 — 4254 editions
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The Hound of the Baskervill...
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The Adventures of Sherlock ...
4.30 avg rating — 300,487 ratings — published 1891 — 7111 editions
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes
4.50 avg rating — 198,043 ratings — published 1930 — 699 editions
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The Sign of Four (Sherlock ...
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Hol...
4.31 avg rating — 90,603 ratings — published 1893 — 2732 editions
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Series by Arthur Conan Doyle

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“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
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“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
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“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
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