When one thinks of a detective, they picture a man with a pipe, dressed in a long trench coat, fashionably sporting a plaid deerstalker. Behind this fashionable garb is a man whom everyone knows by the name of Holmes, Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock Holmes is the archetypal fictional detective who is "right there with Hamlet, Heathcliff and Oliver Twist as one of the best-known characters in all of English Literature" (Routledge). He stands familiar to those who have yet to open the pages of these wonders. Behind every great character though is the mastermind who dreamt his creation. Holmes owes his existence to a man by the name of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born on May 22, 1859 in Picardy Place, Edinburgh. He was the son of Charles Altamont Doyle. Charles Altamont Doyle suffered from Epilepsy and severe alcoholism, so he was not present for much of Conan Doyle's childhood. Conan Doyle grew up in a very large family where he was the youngest of ten children. Seeing his astounding potential, the Doyle family sent Sir Arthur to a Jesuit school. There he stayed for seven years finding joy only in the letters that he received from his mother whom he loved dearly. He quickly discovered his love for writing and amused his fellow classmates with intriguing tales that he conspired. Conan Doyle admired Edgar Allen Poe and hoped to eventually publish novels as he once did. Although Sir Arthur Conan Doyle loved writing, he decided to pursue a career in medicine and attended Edinburgh University. There he graduated in 1885 with a medical degree and practiced medicine until 1891. Doyle was a master at observation, logic, deduction, and diagnosis. These are all qualities that are exhibited in the persona of the celebrat...
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...ppealing to people centuries later. Next time a detective is brought up and you picture the long pipe, the trench coat and the plaid deerstalker hat, maybe instead that mental image should become that of the mastermind behind the century old character, a man by the name of Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Pearl is an example of the innocent result of sin. All the kids make fun of Pearl and they disclude her from everything. She never did anything wrong, but everyone treats her like she committed the sin also. Pearl acts out against the children that make fun of her and acts like a crazy child. She cannot control the sins that her parents committed.
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... identifiable ancestor of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie's Hurcule Poirot, Erle Stanley Gardner's Perry Mason and all those other heroes whose minds are "resolvent and creative." (E. A. Poe)
and made him the well known author he is today is titles A Study in Scarlet. Doyle’s complete name is Sir Author Conan Doyle. The two main characters in this book are Sherlock Holmes and his roommate John H. Watson, they were a couple of friends who live together and solved cases. Events in all of our lives make certain impacts or when we meet certain people that we