American Thinker
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 in Edinburgh.
He worked as a surgeon and medical officer on a ship traveling between Liverpool and Africa.
In between patients, Doyle worked on his novella A Study of Scarlet, which marked the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes.
Doyle based Holmes’s prodigious observational abilities on his old professor, Dr Joseph Bell.
Doyle was careful to indicate that Holmes’s astonishing results weren’t just the result of his amazing skill at deduction but his diligence, tenancy, focus, and determination.
Doyle even had occasions where Holmes was outdone by a superior adversary.
Doyle saw Holmes as a stepping stone toward something more substantial in literary terms.
The most faithful adaptations of the Holmes stories were in the Granada Series starring Jeremy Brett as Holmes.
Brett even resembled the Sidney Paget illustrations that accompanied Doyle’s stories in the Strand Magazine.
Doyle realized that, despite his efforts, his legacy would be defined by Sherlock Holmes, but he also hoped to be remembered as a champion of spiritualism.
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