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Birth
He was born on May 22, 1859 in Edinburgh. British novelist. Scottish family, he studied at the universities of Stonyhurst and Edinburgh, where he completed the medical career. -
His career
Between 1882 and 1890 he practiced as a physician in Southsea (England). To round his meager income he published a novel of intrigue, a study in Scarlet, which would become the first of the sixty-eight stories in which one of the most famous literary detectives of all time appears, Sherlock Holmes. -
First publication
In a moment of authentic inspiration, based on the model of Quixote and Sancho that so many novelists have used, the author created Dr. Watson, a loyal but intellectually clumsy doctor who accompanies Sherlock and writes his adventures. In July 1891 he began publishing in the magazine Strand magazine The Adventures of his character, based partly on one of his professors of the university, which advocated to follow strict deductive reasoning in all the orders of life. -
His famous book: Sherlock Holmes
In 1893, fed up with Sherlock, he decided to give him death in fiction alongside his deadly enemy, the evil Professor Moriarty; But because of the pressure of his readers, he must have resurrected the detective in 1902, with the Hound of the Baskervilles. Doyle adorned his character with certain traits very revealing of the stereotypes of the upper Victorian class: hobby of cocaine, dexterity in music (especially with the violin), abrupt accesses of euphoria and melancholy and others. -
His passionate writing
From this fervor he tells his passionate writing of pamphlets and articles in favor of his country in the war of the Boers, like the war in South Africa (1900), and also the six volumes titled The British Campaign in Flanders (1916-1919). In addition to intrigue novels, Doyle practiced the historical genre in Michael Clarke (1888), The White Company (1890) or Rodney Stone (1896), as well as the drama in History of Waterloo (1894). Their incursions into science fiction are curious, among others. -
His death
The author suffered a crisis after the death of his eldest son in the trenches of the Great War and dedicated himself, with the energy that characterized him, to spread the spirituality, especially in the Wanderings of a Spiritualist (1921) and the History off Spiritualism (1926). Four years before dying he published his autobiography, Memoirs and Adventures. He finally died on July 7th, 1930 in Crowborough, United Kingdom. -
Sherlock Holmes ' novels
to finish, Sherlock Holmes ' novels have aroused a cult of great rootedness both of the places and costumes of the character and of his fictitious domicile in London. There are a vast number of pseudoeruditas publications dealing with the eccentric character.
