“From my boyhood I have had an intense and overwhelming conviction that my real vocation lay in the direction of literature. I have, however, had a most unaccountable difficulty in getting any responsible person to share my”

British physician and author of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Doyle is best known for creating the detective Sherlock Holmes. His stories and novels, blending logic and observation, remain foundational to detective fiction and popular culture.