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Arthur Conan Doyle

Born

in Edinburgh, Scotland, The United Kingdom

May 22, 1859

Died

July 07, 1930

Website

http://www.sherlockholmesonline.org/

Genre

Fiction, Crime, Thriller

Influences

Edgar Allan Poe, Joseph McCabe, Jules Verne, Walter Scott, Thomas Babi ...more

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A series of stories, including The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902), of known British writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle chiefly features Sherlock Holmes, the brilliant detective.

Mary Foley, an Irish mother, bore Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, the third of ten siblings, to Charles Altamont Doyle, a talented English illustrator of Irish descent.

Although people now refer to as "Conan Doyle" despite the uncertain origin of this understood compound surname. His baptism record in the registry of cathedral of Saint Mary in Edinburgh gives "Arthur Ignatius Conan" as his Christian name, and simply "Doyle" as his surname. It also names Michael Conan as his godfather.

At the age of nine years in 1868, parents sent Arthur Conan Doyle to Hodder plac ...more

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Arthur Conan Doyle’s books

Average rating: 4.17 · 2,562,073 ratings · 100,968 reviews · 11,854 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1) 4.14 avg rating — 451,624 ratings — published 1887 — 6292 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5) 4.13 avg rating — 351,020 ratings — published 1902 — 7905 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3) 4.30 avg rating — 303,393 ratings — published 1891 — 6564 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Sherlock Holmes 4.50 avg rating — 199,596 ratings — published 1930 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes, #2) 3.90 avg rating — 159,591 ratings — published 1890 — 4469 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #4) 4.31 avg rating — 91,671 ratings — published 1893 — 199 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Sherlock Holmes: Volume II by Arthur Conan Doyle, Kyle Freeman (Contributor) 4.48 avg rating — 80,669 ratings — published 1914 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #6) by Arthur Conan Doyle, Owen Dudley Edwards (Series Editor), Angus Wilson (Foreword), Richard Lancelyn Green (Editor) 4.28 avg rating — 65,516 ratings — published 1905 — 237 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lost World (Professor Challenger, #1) 3.93 avg rating — 67,869 ratings — published 1912 — 2882 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	His Last Bow (Sherlock Holmes, #8) 4.24 avg rating — 45,709 ratings — published 1917 — 226 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Next month is my turn to pick and I want to read a classic, but not one that's too long. So, I've narrowed it down to several I've wanted to read for a while, but couldn't decide which one to go with.

Which would you prefer?

(The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 4 Novels & 56 Short Stories) by Arthur Conan Doyle (We wouldn't read all of the stories--we'd decide which ones to read if this book wins.)

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(The Scarlet Pimpernel) by Emmuska Orczy

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