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Arthur Conan Doyle

Born

in Edinburgh, Scotland, The United Kingdom

May 22, 1859

Died

July 07, 1930

Website

https://conandoyleestate.com/

Genre

Fiction, Crime, Thriller

Influences

Edgar Allan Poe, Joseph McCabe, Jules Verne, Walter Scott, Thomas Babi ...more

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Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones in the field of crime fiction.
Doyle was a prolific writer. In addition to the Holmes stories, his works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger, and humorous stories about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels. One of Doyle's early short stories, "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" (1884), helped to popularise the mystery of the brigantine Mary Celeste, found drifting at sea with ...more

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Arthur Conan Doyle’s books

Average rating: 4.17 · 2,761,479 ratings · 114,172 reviews · 15,379 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1) 4.13 avg rating — 485,456 ratings — published 1887 — 100 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5) 4.14 avg rating — 379,311 ratings — published 1902 — 108 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3) 4.30 avg rating — 321,915 ratings — published 1892 — 62 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Sherlock Holmes 4.51 avg rating — 215,050 ratings — published 1927 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes, #2) 3.89 avg rating — 173,857 ratings — published 1890 — 66 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #4) 4.29 avg rating — 103,767 ratings — published 1893 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Sherlock Holmes: Volume II by Arthur Conan Doyle, Kyle Freeman (Contributor) 4.48 avg rating — 81,520 ratings — published 1914 — 76 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #6) by Arthur Conan Doyle, Owen Dudley Edwards (Series Editor), Angus Wilson (Foreword), Richard Lancelyn Green (Editor) 4.27 avg rating — 69,171 ratings — published 1905 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lost World (Professor Challenger, #1) 3.93 avg rating — 71,619 ratings — published 1912 — 3055 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Valley of Fear (Sherlock Holmes, #7) 3.96 avg rating — 53,989 ratings — published 1914 — 3336 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos 1782, 418 pages

70 votes, 22.6%

The White Company by Arthur Conan Doyle 1891, 416 pages

63 votes, 20.3%

Hunger by Knut Hamsun 1890, 134 pages

56 votes, 18.1%

The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith 1892, 176 pages

49 votes, 15.8%

Evelina by Frances Burney 1778, 455 pages

30 votes, 9.7%

Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot 1857, 310 pages

27 votes, 8.7%

Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz 1894, 589 pages

15 votes, 4.8%

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