Auguste Dupin, but it was Conan Doyle who first introduced to literature the character of the scientific detective. Holmes's fictional forefather was Edgar Allan Poe's detective C.
The Sherlock Holmes storiesīetween 18, Doyle wrote four novels and fifty-six stories with Sherlock Holmes, a brilliant London-based “consulting detective” famous for his astute observation, deductive reasoning and forensic skills to solve difficult cases. Like Wells, he also became an important public figure whose opinion was sought on the crucial issues of the day, an influential speaker at a time when the lecture was a popular event. Wells, he used his scientific education and medical training in his fiction and challenged the prevailing belief in the idea of progress. Like his younger contemporary and friend, H. Like Dickens, he published his stories and novels, often in serial form, in the weekly magazines that were the staple of popular entertainment in the late nineteenth century. He shared Dickens's sense of justice and social responsibility, his warm humanity and delight in the lively individuality of the characters he created. Jeffrey and Valerie Meyers, editors of The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Reader: From Sherlock Holmes to Spiritualism (2002) write: Wodehouse, Theodore Roosevelt, and Oscar Wilde. He left thousands of letters to the press, his mother (about 1500 letters), family, friends and acquaintances, including Winston Churchill, P. He also published nonfiction, essays, articles, memoirs and three volumes of poetry. During his writing career Sir Arthur wrote twenty-one novels and over 150 short stories. Rthur Conan Doyle’s literary output is prodigious.
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