Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is best known for his Sherlock Holmes books, but he also wrote a dinosaur story called The Lost World.
Sherlock Holmes is a detective in his 40s who was an amateur scientist. He was one of the first detectives to analyze footprints, and blood types using scientific technique to indict criminals in a time when public opinion was used to determine innocence or guilt.
His first story was A Study in Scarlet. Sherlock Holmes met Watson at a pub. Watson had then recently returned from military service in Afghanistan as a field medic.
The murderer wrote a graffiti on the wall, the word "rache" which apparently means revenge in German. Sherlcok Holmes determined the height of the offender in that graffiti is usually written just above eye level.
A Study in Scarlet was first published in The Strand magazine.
The Sign of the Four was an introduction to the Seven Percent Solution. Sherlock Holmes used to inject cocaine and/or morphine. This was in the 1800s when it was still legal. The Laws making these drugs illegal in the 20th Century had not yet been enacted. Watson, however, being a doctor knew about the health risks of these strange white powder drugs and repeatedly asked Sherlock Holmes to quit. "The game is hardly worth the candle."
Sherlock Holmes short stories appeared first in the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
During those days, they were using candlelight. In the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, he meets his nemesis Professor Moriarty who was the smartest man in London, but Sherlock Holmes undercut him. Which meant that Sherlock Holmes was the smartest man in London.
At Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland, Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty fight it out and the two men fall into the watery chaos below.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle intended to forever retire his detective. But when public opinion was overwhelming, the author decided to bring back the famous detective in The Return of Sherlock Holmes. When Return of Sherlock Holmes was published ten years after the spill over Reichenbach Falls, Sherlock Holmes was in a London where they were using electric lightbulbs. The last Sherlock Holmes book was The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes.
The more famous Sherlock Holmes stories are:
A Scandal in Bohemia. This is a story of a woman named Irene Adler who has greatly impressed Sherlock Holmes with her wit.
The Solitary Cyclist is the story of a woman who was hired by people who knew her father in Africa.
The Speckled Band is the story of a snake used to terrorize the victims of a crime.
Silver Blaze is the story of a horse that was prevented from winning a race. A tiny knife had been interserted into the hamstrings of a horse. This of course sabotaged the horse. Sherlock Holmes was on the case and as he was interviewing a farm hand, he said, "There is the curious incident of the dog in the night."
"The dog did nothing in the night." The farm hand said.
"That is the curious incident."
From this, it was determined that it was the stable hand that had did the job he was paid to do.
The Red Headed League was the story of a pawnbroker Jabeez Wilson who had red hair. One day his assistant Vincent Spaulding tells him about some group he might be interested in. When he goes to the address, he sees a notice on the office door about a Red Headed League. He was ushered into an office and was well paid. All he had to do was to copy out the dictionary. Starting with the letter A. He was the write the word and then the definition.
At the end of the day, the foreman in charge of this operation looked at the completed script, nodded and had given Jabeez Wilson, the pawnbroker, his wages in cash.
A couple of days later, he shows up for work, but sees a sign that says that The Red Headed League has been dissolved.
Sherlock Holmes later finds the assistant Vincent Spaulding and asks him about what was going on. It is soon disclosed that the League was really a cover. A criminal group masterminded by Professor Moriarty hired the pawnbroker because his store was over the route for a tunnel the group planned to dig. This tunnel led to a bank vault.
The Devil's Foot is about the root of a plant from Africa, in large doses it is fatal but in small doses brings about the most horrifying visions about the worst moments in that person's life as well as acute drug psychosis. This plant is known to African shamans.
Mortimer Tregennis intent on the family estate kills his sister Brenda Tregennis using this powder. This sister's lover was an African safari man, Dr Leon Sterndale who in turn uses the powder to kill the murderous brother.
Sherlock Holmes whose sympathies lie with the Doctor then quietly urges Dr Sterndale to return to Africa.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote four novels. He wrote A Study In Scarlet, The Sign of Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Valley of Fear.
The Hound of The Baskervilles is about a ghostly dog that eats people that haunts the misty swamps of Northern England. Sherlock Holmes is sent to investigate when the body of the Lord of the Estate is found on the grounds near the swamp.
The Valley of Fear is about a criminal on the run from some crimes he committed in the West. The people is on the run from eventually catch him and kill him, throwing overboard of a boat off the coast of Africa.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote in a very old English style which is comfortable to read.
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