Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1859. He studied medicine at University of Edinburgh. Here he developed the idea for the deductive methods of his famous character, Sherlock Holmes.
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The characters of Sherlock Holmes and his (1859-1930) trusted collogues Dr. Watson first appeared in the novel A Study in Scarlet, published in Beeton's Christmas Annual (1887). The second novel, The Sign of Four, was published in 1890. However, Doyle's work did not reach a wide audience until the publication of his short stories in The Stand in July 1891, published as two collections, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1894). Frustrated by the success of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson and the lack of intere…