Happy Birthday, Sir Arthur ...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

• English writer
• Born in Edinburgh on May 22, 1859
• Deceased in Crowborough on July 7, 1930

Born from a Scottish father and an Irish mother, Conan Doyle follows its studies to the Public School de Stonyhurst, considered for its catholic teaching.
Doyle becomes agnostic and turns to studies of medicine.
Once its acquired diploma, it is useful in the army and travels to South Africa before settling in Portsmouth.
He thinks about a literary career, particularly attracted by the historical novel.
Nevertheless, in fact the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, at the origin a news of order published in 1887 will ensure its literary success the detriment of works that Doyle judged more serious (“Waterloo”).
Sherlock Holmes will become so popular that considerable victoriens will believe in its real existence.
Doyle will thus try to kill its creature, but will be forced to make it reappear opposite dissatisfaction.
It will be also illustrated in science fiction (“The Lost World”) and will write at the end of its life of the works on the existence of the fairies and the spiritism, of which he had become the burning defender.

• Honors…
  Conan doyle was anobli in 1902 in reward of services rendered to the nation, having made propaganda to defend the role of Great Britain in the war of Boers in South Africa (1899-1902).
• Spiritism…
  Doyle tried to convince the magician Harry Houdini of the founded good of spiritism. Together, they took part in a meeting and “came into contact” with the mother of Houdini. This one was described like carrying a crucifix by the spiritistic one. Houdini offusqua because his/her mother was Jewish. It with what Doyle him rétorqua which it had converted in beyond!

All that recalls me that that would be well if I took a few moments to again plunge me in some of the intrigues solved with brilliance by Sherlock Holmes (with or without the assistance of faithful Dr. Watson).