Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 in Edinburgh into a prosperous Irish family. He trained as a doctor, gaining his degree from Edinburgh University in 1881. He worked as a surgeon on a ...

Today, nearly seventy years after his death, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is universally associated with his most popular literary creation, Sherlock Holmes. In fact, the hyper-rational detective is ...

Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini in the US, 1923. Source: Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia Harry Houdini in chains, moments before jumping off the Harvard Bridge in Boston, 1908.

I imagine few people know who Arthur Conan Doyle is. On the other hand, virtually everyone knows the name of the character he created. That would be Sherlock Holmes, who has appeared in all forms ...