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Arthur Conan Doyle

He is a world famous Scottish and English writer -

Arthur Conan Doyle He is a world famous Scottish and English writer
author of detective works on Sherlock Holmes. Arthur was born in 1859 in Edinburgh.His parents were architect and artist. Conan Doyle said, "True love of literature, the propensity for writing,I think of the mother."In 1885 Conan Doyle married Louise Hawkins, who suffered from tuberculosis and died in 1906. In 1907, Doyle married Jeanie Lecky.He had five children. Conan Doyle died of a heart attack July 7, 1930 at his home in Crowborough.

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Sherlock Holmes

Once he remembered one crank - Joseph Bell, who was a

Sherlock Holmes Once he remembered one crank - Joseph Bell, who was
lecturer at the University of Edinburgh and regularly hit his students for their excessive powers of observation and ability using the "deductive method" to understand the most complex and intricate problems. So Joseph Bell under the assumed name of amateur detective Sherlock Holmes appeared in one of the stories the author. However, this story go unnoticed, but the following - "The Sign of Four" (1890) - earned him popularity. In the early 90-ies of the XIX century, one after the other fall collections of short stories, "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes," "Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes", "The Return of Sherlock Holmes." "Highlight" of the image of Sherlock Holmes was intellectual, ironic and spiritual aristocracy, which give special luster disclosure intricate crimes.

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Hound of the Baskervilles

About hound
Watson describes it as an evil monster,

Hound of the Baskervilles About hound Watson describes it as an evil
sowing death in peat bogs: "Neither in whose fevered mind could not be a vision of a more terrible, more disgusting than this infernal creature jumped out at us from the fog" Dog afraid of everyone in the neighborhood. Seeing her, he died of a heart attack, Charles Baskerville, which prompted Sherlock and Watson to investigate.