Sherlock Holmes Research Paper

Arthur Conan Doyle Arthur Doyle wrote over 60 short stories about the notable character Sherlock Holmes, and nearly 200 novels, short stories, poems, historical book and pamphlets. Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born, May 22, 1859 by the parents of Charles and Mary Doyle. Doyle’s father was a drunk and Doyle’s mother, Mary was a passionate reader and story teller, as he says, “In my early childhood, as far as I can remember anything at all, the vivid stories she would tell me stand out so clearly that they observe the real facts of life.” Arthur Conan Doyle lived a much fulfilled life and had his multiple moments of fame. He loved only one woman and had two children a boy and a girl. When he turned nine the Doyle family paid for his schooling, he spent seven years at a Jesuit Boarding School, he graduated in 1876 by the age of seventeen. During his time at the boarding school, he said this about his mom, “Perhaps it was good for me that the times were hard, for I was wild, …show more content…
Charles Waller, one of his mother’s friends. While he was the university he met a Dr. Joseph Bell, he was eventually the influence for the character Sherlock Holmes. He then wrote his first short story The Mystery of Sasassa Valley, which had the same style of Edgar Allen Poe, and Bret Harte. Shortly after he wrote his second short story, The American Tale. Which ended up being published in London Society and his response was, “It was in this year that I first learned that shillings might be earned in other ways by filing phials.” By the time he was twenty years old he was in his third year of medical school, and was becoming very bored, but then he was offered to go on a hunting trip to Greenland and the Artic Circle to hunt for Seals and Whales. He hated hunting, it did not interest him, but he was most excited, about the boat ride. After his experience he wrote his second novel, Captain of the