Who was the mastermind behind some of the greatest detective stories ever known? Well, that's elementary my dear Watson! It's Sir Arthur Conan Doyle of course! Arthur Conan Doyle was responsible for popularizing the genre more than anyone else. He created a larger than life character that was able to keep audiences riveted worldwide as the sleuth cracked crimes utilizing the barest of clues and the most minor of details. Sherlock Holmes was such a powerful character that many actually came to believe that he was a real person or that perhaps that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Holmes were somehow one and the same. But no, Holmes was indeed a work of fiction. Doyle on the other hand is an individual with a life full of plenty of intrigue and mystery of its own. And here in this book we crack the case; not of the some hairbrained criminal scheme, but of the distinguished life of one of the greatest writers to have ever lived-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle!