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Biographie d'Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan DOYLE (1859-1930) was born in Edinburgh and studied medicine at the university there. He had an active career as a doctor and ophthalmologist, including volunteering in Bloemfontein during the Boer War and the First World War. But he also wrote historical works and political pamphlets. Yet it was for his brilliant creation (A Study in Scarlet, 1881) of the first scientific detective, Sherlock Holmes, that he achieved great fame - so great that after he killed Holmes off to concentrate on his historical work, he was forced to bring the character back to life in The Hound of the Baskervilles.
In later years, Conan Doyle converted to spiritualism and was a friend of the magician Houdini. He died of a heart attack in 1930, at the age of seventy-one.