Sherlock Holmes Short Stories [antikvár]

Introduction Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1859. He was the oldest child of poor parents. His family was not wealthy, but his parents still managed to send him to a good school, which he attended from the age of nine until he was sixteen. Later, he studied medicine at Edinburgh University. After receiving his degree, he spent almost a year as a ship's doctor, travelling all over the world. On his return to Britain, Conan Doyle went into medical practice at Southsea on the south coast of England. Life was difficult at first as he had very few patients and he struggled hard to earn a living. Although this was a problem as far as his medical practice was concerned, it was a great help to his writing, to which he was able to give a lot of time. He moved to London, where he continued to work as a doctor, but by 1891 he felt confident enough to give up medicine and become a full-time writer. During the Boer War (1899—1902) he spent time as an army doctor in South Africa and was officially recognised for his work there, receiving the title "Sir". Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died in Sussex in 1930. Conan Doyle was a hard-working writer, and during his lifetime he produced a great variety of books and articles. Although he also wrote on a range of serious subjects, he became famous for his books and stories featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes, and it is for these that he is remembered today. The first Holmes mystery, A Study in Scarlet, appeared in 1887, but the character achieved wide popularity with a series of short stories in the Strand Magazine in 1891, later collected together as The Adventures of Sherlock^ Holmes. During his life, Conan Doyle wrote five collections of Holmes short stories as well as four full-length books. m IW'I'. iu I I, f