The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Stories

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) is a famous English writer, author of historical and fantastic novels, journalistic essays and research works, whose loud glory brought stories about the ingenious detective Sherlock Holmes. Arthur was born at the young couple of Irish Catholics in Edinburgh, his father was a hereditary artist and later illustrated his son"s first story about Sherlock. In the world of fiction, Arthur was immersed by a mother, a beautiful storyteller, and her vivid images became the main impressions of childhood and his whole life - Conan Doyle passionately believed in fairies and was fond of spiritualism. He chose a prose profession, however, he became a doctor, although he began to write already in the third year of Edinburgh University, and previously studied at the Jesuit College of the Stony Murses for 7 years. It was there that it is believed that Doyle met the Moriarty brothers - talented mathematicians who often mocked Arthur, who was not given mathematics and who rewarded with the hated name of the “villain of the criminal world, professor of mathematics”. The prototype of Holmes is considered a completely different professor - Dr. Joseph Bell, who amazed everyone with the ability to guess in detail the character of a person and his past classes - Doyle worked with him in the Royal Hospital, and Scotland Yard really asked Bella consultation (during the investigation of the Jack -Jackie case. Rable) The first story from the series about Sherlock Holmes was the Etude in crimson tones printed in 1887, and for several years, the Doyle issued a story after the story (the Blue Carbuncle and the Feast Tape were created one after another in January-February 1892- go) At some point, the writer began to be weighed down by his hero and tried to kill him (the Last Family of Holmes, 1893), in order to finish the cycle, but inexhaustible reader interest forced to resurrect the star of the investigation. The epic did not end at the beginning of the century, but was crowned with the classic of the genre - Roman "Dog Basqueerville", at the same time, in 1900, Doyle received the Sir title and went to the Anglo -Burgit war as a surgeon. Interestingly, the initials of Sh.Kh. They were not always revealed in a certain way, the first version of the hero’s name was completely different - Sheridan Hope