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How to be like Sherlock Holmes?

 

When we were children we always dreamed about working as a spy or a detective. These jobs attracted us as the most mysterious, adventurous and exciting. You know, they are not widely spread in our everyday life, that is why we can see them only in films and books. For many years the only idol for us was James Bond, but not now...

Now we are focused on the other person. His name is Sherlock Holmes, the worlds most famous and recognized fictional detective. The stories about him were written more than 150 years ago but they are still popular. While studying Sherlock Holmes' character we tried to understand how to become like him.

Some things about author.

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a Scottish physician and writer, most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes. his literature works include science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels.

Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born on May 22, 1859, in Edinburgh.

He is the son of Charles Altamont Doyle, a civil servant in the Edinburgh Office of Works, and Mary (Foley) Doyle. Both of Doyle's parents were Roman Catholics. They had a prominent position in the world of Art.

Charles Altamont painted, made book illustrations, and also worked as a sketch artist on criminal trials.Doyle's mother, Mary, was interested in literature, and she encouraged his son to explore the world of books.

Arthur's father was an alcoholic and the family was always short of money.

Supported by wealthy uncles, Conan Doyle was sent to the Roman Catholic Jesuit preparatory school Hodder Place, Stonyhurst, at the age of nine (1868-1870.)

From 1876 to 1881 he studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh. One of his professors at the university was Dr. Joseph Bell, who became the model for Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. It was Bell who drummed into Doyle's head the importance of using his innate powers of observation to help him deduce the nature of a patient's affliction.

While studying, Conan Doyle began writing short stories. His earliest extant fiction, "The Haunted Grange of Goresthorpe", was unsuccessfully submitted to Blackwood's Magazine. His first published piece "The Mystery of Sasassa Valley", a story set in South Africa, was printed in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal on 6 September 1879.Later that month, on 20 September, he published his first non-fictional article, "Gelsemium as a Poison" in the British Medical Journal.

In 1885 Conan Doyle married Louise Hawkins, and had two children with her, before she died after a protracted illness in 1900. In 1907 he remarried, to Jeanne Leckie, and had three more children with her.

The first Holmes novel was A Study in Scarlet, the story which introduced Sherlock Holmes to the world. Study was published in Mrs. Beeton's Christmas annual, in 1887. Encouraged by publishers to keep writing, Conan Doyle wrote his second Holmes mystery, The Sign of the Four, in 1890.

 



So successful were these novels, and the stories which followed, that Conan Doyle could afford to give up his medical practice and devote himself to writing full time.By 1920, Doyle was one of the most highly paid writers in the world.

But Conan Doyle really wanted to write historical novels like his hero, Sir Walter Scott, and in 1893 decided to kill off Sherlock Holmes in the story, The Final Problem. However, after coming under considerable pressure from his fans, he returned to write his best known detective story, The Hound of the Baskervilles(1902).

After the death of his son in World War I, Conan Doyle became interested in spiritualism.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died on July 7, 1930. and he can rightly be credited with helping create the literary genre of the detective story.

 




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