Early Life
This city in Scotland is where Arthur Conan Doyle was born in 1859.
What is Edinburgh?
Doyle studied medicine at this Scottish university.
What is University of Edinburgh?
This fictional detective was created by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Who is Sherlock Holmes?
This 1901 Sherlock Holmes novel features a mysterious supernatural hound.
What is The Hound of the Baskervilles?
This belief system became very important to Doyle later in life.
What is Spiritualism?
Doyle’s mother, Mary, inspired his imagination by doing this for him as a child.
What is telling imaginative or outlandish stories?
This professor’s powers of observation inspired Sherlock Holmes.
Who is Joseph Bell?
This character served as Holmes’s assistant.
Who is Dr. John Watson?
This 1890 Holmes novel is the second major story featuring the detective.
What is The Sign of Four?
This was the name of Doyle’s first wife.
Who is Louisa Hawkins?
At age 9, Doyle was sent to this Jesuit preparatory school in England.
What is Hodder Place?
During medical school, Doyle worked as a ship surgeon on this type of vessel headed for the Arctic Circle.
What is a whaling ship?
This 1887 novel first introduced Sherlock Holmes to the public.
What is A Study in Scarlet?
This 1892 historical novel by Doyle takes place during the Napoleonic Era.
What is The Great Shadow?
After Louisa’s death in 1906, Doyle married this woman the following year.
Who is Jean Leckie?
Doyle’s father, Charles, struggled with this lifelong problem.
What is alcoholism?
Doyle earned this degree in 1881.
What is a Bachelor of Medicine?
Doyle wrote this total number of stories about Sherlock Holmes.
What is 60?
This 1896 historical novel became one of Doyle’s most famous non-Holmes works.
What is Rodney Stone?
Louisa Hawkins died from this infectious disease.
What is tuberculosis?
This religious background described Doyle’s family growing up.
What is Irish Catholic?
This steamship carried Doyle on one of his first jobs as a medical officer traveling from Liverpool to Africa.
What is the SS Mayumba?
In 1893 Doyle tried to kill off Holmes but later revived him in this story.
What is The Adventure of the Empty House?
Doyle’s final twelve Sherlock Holmes stories were collected in this 1928 book.
What is The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes?
Doyle died in 1930 from this heart-related medical condition.
What is a heart attack?