Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a Scottish writer who became famous because of his literary character Sherlock Holmes. He also wrote many other types of books, as "The Lost World", some terror and supernatural novels, some medical ones and many historical novels. He lived between 1959 and 1930.

He studied medicine, and because of that in most of Holmes's stories appear any murder with poison or any chemical substance. Hractised some sports, as boxing and football. He liked more to write abot history than mistery novels, but those were the ones who made him famous. He also travelled to Africa, and in many Holmes's adventures criminals came from there.

When he "killed" Holmes in his story "The Final Problem", he received lots of letters adressed to Holmes, "living" in Bakerstreet 221B. Doyle's mother spoke him in a funny way when she knew it: "This happens to you because you have deceptioned Sir Holmes, so be careful not to do anything bad to him again".

In the final of his life, he dedicated most of his time to spiritism, and he wrote many novels about it. His last Holmes's story was written some time before the 1st World War, and in it Holmes and Watson had to catch a german spy, and talking about the future, Holmes predicts that some bad times are coming, making reference to the war.