As a boy in England, Arthur Conan Doyle enjoyed reading detective stories. But he was working his way through medical school and didn’t have much time for writing.
However, in 1886, as the twenty-seven-year-old Dr. Doyle sat in his new office hoping for patients. He decided to try writing a detective story. And so, Mr. Sherlock Holmes was born.
Over the years, Doyle himself came to be recognized as an expert on crime. He solved many real-life criminal cases and proved the innocence of men who had been imprisoned for crimes they didn’t commit.
Doyle interrupted his writing career to serve as a doctor with the British Army during the Boer War in Africa. Afterwards, he wrote two books explaining why the British had to fight the war. For these efforts, Doyle was knighted by King Edward VII and he became Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
During a visit to the moor country in western England, Doyle became so interested in a legend about a hound, that he used it as a plot for a new book. This book became the greatest of all of Holmes’ adventure, The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Many of sixty Sherlock Holmes stories have been translated into other languages and have been made even more popular in plays, movies, radio, and TV.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died in 1930 at the age of seventy-one. But each day, the number of his readers increases, as someone discovers, for the first time, the amazing Mr. Holmes.
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