Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer and medical doctor. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 when he published A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson.

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle

Dr James Mortimer calls on Sherlock Holmes in London for advice after his friend Sir Charles Baskerville was found dead in the yew alley of his manor on Dartmoor in Devon. The death was attributed to a heart attack, but according to Mortimer, Sir Cha...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the arrangement of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand magazine, where they were first distributed, and won huge prevalence for Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. The investigator is at the stature of h...

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of thirteen short stories. We talk a little about some of them. The Empty House Dr. Watson looks with amazement at supposedly dead Holmes again, who tells him how he has escaped his death. It is a story...

A Study in Scarlet

Arthur Conan Doyle

A Study in Scarlet is the first of four novels about the cases of the most famous detectives in the world. The creator of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle, wrote this book at the age of 27. He worked as a doctor full time while was working on that...