Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

1. An English author of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, best known for creating the character Sherlock Holmes. Doyle's works include “A Study in Scarlet,” “The Sign of the Four,” and “The Hound of the Baskervilles.”

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Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, English novelist, a nephew of Richard Doyle, born at Edinburgh, 1859, studied medicine, and for some years practised, but gave up the profession for that of literature.

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