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GROSSET 
The Complete SHERLOCK HOLMES 
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 
 
 
S herlock Holmes is the best-loved creation of the Scottish writer of detective stories and historical romances, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), who studied medicine in Edinburgh. Doyle's general practice in Southsea failed and after a stint as an oculist in London, which also failed to relieve his poverty, he took to writing fiction. The detective stories featuring Holmes and his friend Dr John Watson have changed the way modern crime writers approach detective fiction. Sherlock Holmes loved by readers that when Doyle, tiring of was SO the popular character, killed him off, there was such national dismay that he had to be brought back to life in 1903. Although Doyle wrote 
several other novels, none provoked the same degree of fondness or fanaticism with the public and these have generally been underrated. The popularity of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes has never waned 
 
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