Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ, DL (22 May 1859 - 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician, most noted for creating the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes and writing stories about him which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. He is also known for writing the fictional adventures of a second character he invented, Professor Challenger, and for popularising the mystery of the Mary Celeste. He was a prolific writer whose other works include fantasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, nonfiction and historical novels.

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ, DL (22 May 1859 - 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician, most noted for creating the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes and writing stories about him which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. He is also known for writing the fictional adventures of a second character he invented, Professor Challenger, and for popularising the mystery of the Mary Celeste. He was a prolific writer whose other works include fantasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, nonfiction and historical novels.Doyle is often...

Brigadier Gerard is the hero of a series of historical short stories by the British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. The hero, Etienne Gerard, is a Hussar officer in the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars. Gerard's most notable attribute is his vanity - he is utterly convinced that he is the bravest soldier, greatest swordsman, most accomplished horseman and most gallant lover in all France. Gerard is not entirely wrong, since he displays notable bravery on many occasions, but his self-satisfaction undercuts this quite often. Obsessed with honour and glory, he is always ready with a stirring...

The Great Shadow, also known as The Great Shadow and other Napoleonic Tales, is an action and adventure novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and published in 1892 in J.W. Arrowsmith's Bristol Library. The novel takes place in the Napoleonic era on the English-Scottish border city called West Inch. The Great Shadow refers to the Napoleon's influence and his reputation that forms a shadow over West Inch. PLOT: Instead of Sherlock Holmes being the main character, the story follows Jack Colder, who claims his only notable childhood experience was when he accidentally prevented a burglary...

The Valley of Fear is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is loosely based on the Molly Maguires and Pinkerton agent James McParland. The story was first published in the Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915. The first book edition was copyrighted in 1914, and it was first published by George H. Doran Company in New York on 27 February 1915, and illustrated by Arthur I. Keller. PLOT: The novel starts with Sherlock Holmes receiving a cipher message from Fred Porlock (pseudonym), an agent of Professor Moriarty. After Porlock sends the message,...

Londres, 1912. Edward Malone, du Daily Gazette, est envoye par son redacteur-en-chef interviewer le terrible professeur George Challenger, dont la reputation est entachee par de nombreux scandales a la suite de bagarres avec des journalistes. Malone se fait passer pour un jeune etudiant pour mieux berner le professeur, mais il est rapidement demasque les deux hommes en viennent aux mains. Le journaliste refuse pourtant de porter plainte, ce qui amene le professeur a lui reveler sa decouverte concernant l'existence de dinosaures encore vivants en Amerique du Sud d'apres le carnet d'un certain...

Londres, 1912. Edward Malone, du Daily Gazette, est envoye par son redacteur-en-chef interviewer le terrible professeur George Challenger, dont la reputation est entachee par de nombreux scandales a la suite de bagarres avec des journalistes. Malone se fait passer pour un jeune etudiant pour mieux berner le professeur, mais il est rapidement demasque les deux hommes en viennent aux mains. Le journaliste refuse pourtant de porter plainte, ce qui amene le professeur a lui reveler sa decouverte concernant l'existence de dinosaures encore vivants en Amerique du Sud d'apres le carnet d'un certain...

Le docteur Mortimer rend visite a Sherlock Holmes et son ami le docteur Watson pour leur expliquer les circonstances etranges de la mort de son ami et patient, Sir Charles Baskerville. Le vieil homme au coeur fragile a succombe a une attaque cardiaque apres une courte promenade nocturne dans les jardins du manoir, qui donne sur la lande brumeuse du Devonshire. Mortimer raconte a Holmes une legende vieille de plusieurs siecles qui court sur cette famille. Il lui montre un manuscrit date de 1742 rapportant que Hugo Baskerville, un ancetre cruel, aurait ete egorge par un chien demoniaque apres...

Le docteur Mortimer rend visite a Sherlock Holmes et son ami le docteur Watson pour leur expliquer les circonstances etranges de la mort de son ami et patient, Sir Charles Baskerville. Le vieil homme au coeur fragile a succombe a une attaque cardiaque apres une courte promenade nocturne dans les jardins du manoir, qui donne sur la lande brumeuse du Devonshire. Mortimer raconte a Holmes une legende vieille de plusieurs siecles qui court sur cette famille. Il lui montre un manuscrit date de 1742 rapportant que Hugo Baskerville, un ancetre cruel, aurait ete egorge par un chien demoniaque apres...

If ever a writer needed an introduction Arthur Conan Doyle would not be considered that man. After all, Sherlock Holmes is perhaps the foremost literary detective of any age. Add to this canon his stories of science fiction and horror, his historical novels, his political campaigning, his efforts in establishing a Court Of Appeal, his poetical works and there is little room for anything else. Except he was also a dedicated and voluminous historian writing much about the wars in Southern Africa and the First World War. His analysis and description of events is to be admired and his style is...