Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 in Edinburgh into a prosperous Irish family. He trained as a doctor, gaining his degree from Edinburgh University in 1881. He worked as a surgeon on a ...

Martin Clunes (Doc Martin) stars as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the actual story of the ... Van der Valk) as his Scottish mother. Also appearing are Charles Edwards (Downton Abbey, The Crown ...

The Sign of the Four is the second of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novels. In it the detective and his companion Dr Watson unravel a mystery of hidden treasure and murder. Miss Mary ...

Today, nearly seventy years after his death, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is universally associated with his most popular literary creation, Sherlock Holmes. In fact, the hyper-rational detective is ...