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BIOGRAPHY OF CONAN DOYLE, PARADOX

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From: Roanoke Times & World News
Date: 20080302
Author:Reviewed by Hilbert Campbell

In 1892, only five years after the detective Sherlock Holmes first appeared in the novella "A Study in Scarlet," Arthur Conan Doyle wrote to his mother, "I am in the middle of the last Holmes story, after which the gentleman vanishes, never never to reappear. I am weary of his name." Doyle was at the time penning a dramatic scene at the end of "The Final Problem" showing Holmes and his nemesis Professor Moriarity grappling on a narrow ledge at Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland just before falling to their deaths in the gulf below. Although his detective's huge popularity, including success ...

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