The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Reader: From Sherlock Holmes to SpiritualismBest known as the creator of the consulting detective par excellence Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 1930) was a man of wide ranging interests and talents, and his literary output went far beyond his Holmes and Watson stories. The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Reader collects works from all the genres in which he wrote, including mysteries, historical adventure tales, science fiction stories, ghost stories, plays, memoirs, essays on