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Happy Birthday, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle!

By Jon Hersey

May 22, 2018
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is best known for his fiction character, Sherlock Holmes, who appeared in more than fifty short stories and four novels between 1887 and 1927. An astute reasoner with an intense focus on solving crimes, Holmes was inspired by Doyle’s University of Edinburgh medical professor, Dr. Joseph Bell.

After studying with Bell, Doyle made se…

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