After his son died in World War I, Conan Doyle became a dedicated spiritualist. In addition to dozens of Sherlock Holmes stories and several novels, Conan Doyle wrote history, pursued whaling, and engaged in many adventures and athletic endeavors. In 1902, Conan Doyle was knighted for his work with a field hospital in South Africa. The case-book of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930 Snow, C. Later collections include The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1894), The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1905), and The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (1827). The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes was first published in 1927 by John Murray.-Title page verso. Starting in 1891, a series of Holmes stories appeared in The Strand magazine, and Conan Doyle was able to give up his medical practice and devote himself to writing. His first Sherlock Holmes story, “A Study in Scarlet,” was published in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887. Bell partly inspired Doyle’s character Sherlock Holmes years later.Īfter medical school, Conan Doyle moved to London, where his slow medical practice left him ample free time to write. Joseph Bell, a teacher with extraordinary deductive power. The book was the first collection of Holmes stories, which Conan Doyle had been publishing in magazines since 1887.Ĭonan Doyle was born in Scotland and studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, where he met Dr. On October 14, 1892, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle, is published. Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) studied medicine at Edinburgh University, but ultimately gave up medicine to pursue a career in writing both fiction and non.
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