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Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a Scottish writer and physician, most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, 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, non-fiction and historical novels.

Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 at 11 Picardy Place, Edinburgh. His father, Charles Altamont Doyle, was born in England of Irish Catholic descent, and his mother, Mary (née Foley), was Irish Catholic. His parents married in 1855. In 1864 the family dispersed due to Charles's growing alcoholism and the children were temporarily housed across Edinburgh. In 1867, the family came together again and lived in squalid tenement flats at 3 Sciennes Place. Supported by wealthy uncles, Doyle was sent to the Jesuit preparatory school Hodder Place, Stonyhurst, at the age of nine (1868–70). He then went on to Stonyhurst College until 1875. From 1875 to 1876, he was educated at the Jesuit school Stella Matutina in Feldkirch, Austria. By the time he left, he had rejected religion and become an agnostic, though he would eventually become a spiritualist mystic. Doyle's father died in 1893, in the Crichton Royal, Dumfries, after many years of psychiatric illness.

Doyle struggled to find a publisher for his work. His first work featuring Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, A Study in Scarlet, was taken by Ward Lock & Co on 20 November 1886, giving Doyle £25 for all rights to the story. The piece appeared later that year in the Beeton's Christmas Annual and received good reviews in The Scotsman and the Glasgow Herald. Holmes was partially modelled on his former university teacher Joseph Bell. Robert Louis Stevenson was able, even in faraway Samoa, to recognise the strong similarity between Joseph Bell and Sherlock Holmes. A sequel to A Study in Scarlet was commissioned and The Sign of the Four appeared in Lippincott's Magazine in February 1890, under agreement with the Ward Lock company. Doyle felt grievously exploited by Ward Lock as an author new to the publishing world and he left them. Short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes were published in the Strand Magazine. Doyle first began to write for the 'Strand' from his home at 2 Upper Wimpole Street, now marked by a memorial plaque.

In December 1893, to dedicate more of his time to his historical novels, Doyle had Holmes and Professor Moriarty plunge to their deaths together down the Reichenbach Falls in the story "The Final Problem". Public outcry, however, led him to feature Holmes in 1901 in the novel The Hound of the Baskervilles. In 1903, Doyle published his first Holmes short story in ten years, The Adventure of the Empty House, in which it was explained that only Moriarty had fallen; but since Holmes had other dangerous enemies—especially Colonel Sebastian Moran—he had arranged to also be perceived as dead. Holmes was ultimately featured in a total of 56 short stories - the last published in 1927 - and four novels by Doyle, and has since appeared in many novels and stories by other authors.

Between 1888 and 1906, Doyle wrote seven historical novels, which he and many critics regarded as his best work. He also authored nine other novels, and later in his career (1912-1929) five stories, two of novella length, featuring the irascible scientist Professor Challenger. The Challenger stories include what is probably his best-known work after the Holmes oeuvre, The Lost World. He was a prolific author of short stories, including two collections set in Napoleonic times featuring the French character Brigadier Gerard.

Here are some books written by Arthur Conan Doyle:

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Sherlock Holmes

1. A Study in Scarlet - Read Online
2. The Sign of the Four  - Read Online
3. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Read Online
4. The Valley of Fear - Read Online
5. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Read Online
6. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - Read Online
7. The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Read Online
8. His Last Bow - Read Online
9. The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
10. The Field Bazaar - Read Online
11. The Lost Special - Read Online
12. The Man with the Watches - Read Online
13. How Watson Learned the Trick

Historical Novels

1. Micah Clarke
2. The White Company
3. The Great Shadow
4. The Refugees
5. Rodney Stone
6. Uncle Bernac
7. Sir Nigel

Other Novels

1. The Mystery of Cloomber
2. The Firm of Girdlestone 
3. The Doings of Raffles Haw
4. Beyond the City 
5. The Parasite
6. The Stark Munro Letters
7. The Tragedy of the Korosko
8. A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus
9. The Maracot Deep

Poetry

1. Songs of Action
2. Songs of the Road
3. The Guards Came Through, and Other Poems
4. The Poems of Arthur Conan Doyle: Collected Edition

Non-Fiction Works

1. The Great Boer War
2. The War in South Africa 
3. Through the Magic Door
4. The Crime of the Congo 
5. The Case of Oscar Slater 
6. The German War: Some Sidelights and Reflections
7. A Visit to Three Fronts
8. The British Campaign in France and Flanders Vol. 1
9. The British Campaign in France and Flanders Vol. 2
10. The British Campaign in France and Flanders Vol. 3
11. The British Campaign in France and Flanders Vol. 4 
12. The British Campaign in France and Flanders Vol. 5
13. The British Campaign in France and Flanders Vol. 6
14. Memories and Adventures
15. Dangerous Work: Diary of an Arctic Adventure

Other Publications

1. The Mystery of the Sasassa Valley
2. Gelseminum as a poison
3. The American's Tale
4. The Gully of Bluemansdyke
5. Bones
6. My Friend the Murderer
7. J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement
8. Life and Death in the Blood
9. Crabbe's Practice
10. The Fate of the Evangeline
11. A Psychologist's Wife
12. A Midshipman's Story
13. Cyprian Overbeck Wells, or A Literary Mosaic
14. Uncle Jeremy's Household
15. The Stone of Boxman's Drift
16. An Exciting Christmas Eve
17. John Huxford's Hiatus
18. The Geographical Distribution of British Intellect
19. The Bravoes of Market Drayton
20. The Ring of Thoth
21. The Surgeon of Gaster Fell
22. The Duello in France
23. The Voice of Science
24. A Day with Dr Conan Doyle
25. The Green Flag
26. Pennarby Mine
27. The Lord of Chateau Noir
28. An Alpine Pass on Ski
29. The Debut of Bimbashi Joyce
30. The Life on a Greenland Whaler
31. Cremona
32. The Groom's Story
33. The Croxley Master
34. The Crime of the Brigadier
35. Hilda Wade, 11
36. Hilda Wade, 12
37. Playing with Fire
38. A Glimpse of the Army
39. Some Military Lessons of the War
40. The Military Lessons of the War, a Rejoinder
41. A British Commando
42. The Leather Funnel
43. The Great Brown-Pericord Motor
44. An Incusion into Diplomacy
45. Through the Magic Door
46. The Pot of Caviare
47. The Silver Mirror
48. Shakespeare's Expostulation
49. Bendy's Sermon
50. The Lord of Falcolnbridge
51. Some Recollections of Sport
52. The Homecoming
53. The Terror of Blue John Gap
54. The Giant Maximin
55. One Crowded Hour
56. What Reform is Needed?
57. The Fall of Lord Barrymore
58. England and the Next War
59. How it Happened
60. The Horror of the Heights
61. Essays Upon Phases of the Great War
62. Danger!
63. Western Wanderings
64. Sherlock Holmes Drawn by a Typewriter
65. An Outing in War Time
66. Stranger than Fiction
67. The Prisoner's Defence
68. Is Sir Oliver Lodge Right that the Dead Can Communicate with the Living?
69. What Will England be Like in 1930?
70. Some Personalia about Mr Sherlock Holmes
71. Three of Them (April)
72. The Battle of the Somme
73. Three of Them (July - August)
74. Three of Them (December)
75. The Battle of Cambrai
76. Life After Death
77. The Uncharted Coast (December 1919, January, May, September and November 1920)
78. The Sideric Pendulum
79. Faries Photographed
80. The Evidence for Faries
81. The Uncharted Coast (May 1921)
82. Sherlock Holmes on the Film
83. The Bully of Brocas
84. The Nightmare Room
85. The Problem of Thor Bridge
86. The Lift
87. Now, Then Smith!
88. Sherlock Holmes in Real Life
89. A Point of Contact
90. Billy's Bones
91. The Centurion
92. The Cottingley Faries
93. Haunting Dreams
94. The Forbidden Subject
95. How Our Novelists Write Their Books
96. W.G. Grace - A Memory
97. Houdini the Enigma
98. The Dreamers—Notes from a Strange Mail Bag
99. The Story of Spedegue's Dropper
100. The Lord of the Dark Face
101. The Death Voyage