The Irregulars: Why Was Sherlock Holmes Killed Off? | Timeline

Sherlock Holmes was a phenomenon of his time, his creator Arthur Conan Doyle became the highest-paid author of his generation and from his stories he forged a new form of popular fiction and yet, having produced a character so loved by a nation In 1891 at the height of its popularity, its creator brought the series to an abrupt end, why get rid of it? Marco, the stories actually reflected his own life perhaps a lot more than we thought and he may have been a little worried that he was revealing too much, but the character. Without a doubt, Sherlock Holmes took it upon himself to cut Donald's life short and irritated Kondo greatly.

He decided that he would give the older tumors to his character and kill him. It has been suggested more than once that the inconsistencies in the stories were deliberately expressed by the author as a kind of code leading to some kind of revelation. An investigation of Conan Doyle's relationship with Sherlock Holmes raises more questions than it answers. Was there something disturbing behind the story of his invention that caused a young doctor from Edinburgh to produce this giant of a literary character? character that has been interpreted and portrayed more than any other ever created. This is a journey into the world of Conan Doyle to discover the truth behind his love affair with the detective creation that would become his most valuable meal ticket.

He will investigate the untold story of the relationship between man and his creation and ask what made him decide to kill off the character who had dominated his life for so long in a dramatic episode. Let's track the people and influences behind it. the creation of what is undoubtedly the most enduring fictional character in literature and we are going to ask ourselves why, having created such a successful and acclaimed detective, what is its creator? It is rather Conan Doyle eager to put an end to his creation. Why Conan Doyle? would want to get rid of the character of Sherlock Holmes, didn't he actually reveal more of himself than he intended through The Adventures of his famous character?

What was he revealing about his own life? As this fictional murder reveals a darker side to an untold story behind the legend, it is possible that The World's Greatest Detective draws on a cocktail of disturbing influences in the author's early life. Well, I am absolutely convinced that yes, in fact, Sherlock Holmes is largely based on a real character when When making your first novel, you generally want to base it on yourself or someone who knows very well that it has also been described not so much. as a character but as a collection of characteristics, but it is those characteristics that give him life, dr.

Watson writes about him in compelling detail. Does this mean there is much of a real person in him? Well, actually yes, probably the sense of a real person in the character of Sherlock Holmes is what leads many to this day to believe that he really existed, well, I just left Baker Street Station and I'm walking down one of the most famous streets in the world, Baker Street in London, and here on the left is one of the best-known addresses in the world - - one B Baker scooty this is the address that Conan Doyle gave his character and we are people , despite being fictional, we are still trapped in the myth today.

He once commiserated, he said that he had never been to London when he started writing the Sherlock Holmes stories, in fact, yes. He was in London when he was a boy of seven or eight when he visited his family in London and they came to visit him, he records this in letters to his mother. They went to visit Madame Tussauds, which was not on Marylebone Road at the time. it was on Baker Street, if you go to his library you'll find a tourist map of London and that's why I highly suspect that he just picked Street at random and said this is where my character will live, really, I was never a two to one. beat Baker Street, although today here on the west side of the street there is a museum dedicated to Sherlock Holmes, but in all honesty, the thief referred to the location of the rooms, even the large window from which Holmes and Watson looked at the daily traffic along Baker.

Street for a pure fiction created by dr. Arthur Conan Doyle, the story of Conan Doyle's own life and his past in creating Holmes is itself something of an enigma leading 400 miles north of London where the stories are sent to Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, the one everyone thinks about. Sherlock Holmes, as a London character, obviously these adventures are written for the streets of London, but in fact it is these streets that we walk through now, the streets of Edinburgh, that really provided in many ways the original fabric against which open the door. He wrote the adventures in these streets, the streets of the infamous murderers Burke and Hare of Deakin Brody, of the main characters who have influenced the creation of Dr.

Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, so it is here, on the streets of Edinburgh, where the chalcones were born. Conan Doyle's early life was turbulent and unstable and bore little resemblance to the orderly and well-to-do world of his London gentlemen. Detective Conan Doyle was born here in Edinburgh, in Pigley Place, where we are. We are now May 22, 1859. He was the third child and eldest son of Charles and Mary Conan Doyle. His family was of Anglo-Irish Catholic descent and was not particularly well-off. His father. Charles Ultimate Doyle, a talented artist, was a chronic alcoholic who suffered from depression and epilepsy.

Jose Aldo Montoya was a fantastic artist, wonderful drawings like all kinds of series and spirits that emanated from the San Needle. Giles Cathedral was epileptic and alcohol had a very strong sauce, it just had a debilitating effect on him, sometimes quite frightening, he would try to sell his clothes, they would sell anything in the house to get drink, the mother found herself bringing home practically a inert cost that can sometimes turn violent, you don't see drunkenness constantly appearing in the stories, sometimes drunkenness accompanies great brutality, one story in particular that revolves around an alcoholic husband who murders his wife and her lover may have been known to be very reminiscent of ordinary tragedy. almost the life of his parents he was known in the business as black the alcoholic husband appears again and again in the Sherlock Holmes stories is possibly the most obvious effect of his own family life in the Sherlock Holmes stories Charles Doyle ended his days in A sanatorium during his childhood, the family moved from one address to another as their financial situation and Charles's condition deteriorated.

Boyle's mother, Mary, was desperate to keep young Arthur away from the destabilizing influence of her father. In 1868, the nine-year-old Doyle was sent to a Jesuit. at a boarding school in England, his family were devout Catholics, he grew up with the Catholic faith ringing in his ears and was educated at Hard and Stonyhurst, which were Jesuit schools, but another particular influence on him was his mother's tales of chivalry, she He regaled his children with stories. of knights and fair maidens and the legendary chivalry of Conan Doyle is told by his own children as he appeals to the imaginative side of the future writer.

These heroic fantasies may also have been an escape for young Conan Doyle from the reality of his own harsher environment. Conan Doyle had grown up quite poor and was the leader of a street gang in Edinburgh. It brought him and one of the Baker Street Irregulars' early scam stories. In an effort to support his family, he applied for a place in Edinburgh to study medicine. While his application was successful, he was far from the typical student while studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh. Conan Doyle stayed here in George Square, now surrounded by university buildings; in fact, they still have a plaque on the wall commemorating his tenure.

He left here in 1880 to embark on the greatest adventure of his young life, an adventure that he later recalled would make him a man. It was instilled in him: you have to do it well, you have to dedicate yourself to the profession and what better profession than Anna is a doctor because you will be comfortable for the rest of your life and I mean, he always said he hated stone hands, he didn't particularly like the University of Edinburgh and considered it more difficult to finish it, but in reality he didn't. He did not particularly like the work and did not find it particularly easy, although he was still studying on the morning of February 28, 1880.

Conan Doyle joined the crew of the Greenlandic whaling ship Hope on a voyage of several months in the dangerous occupation of hunting seals. and whales. He returned to Edinboro with a £50 share of the cruise profits. This period of his life was to have a profound effect on the young man. We don't bore the whaler. A great fight. The news came from a powerful man. Am. He said no. He didn't pass, yeah, you know, he left Edinburgh with flying colours, he was turned down at every hospital appointment he went to. They almost forced me to go on whaling ships and such to earn their money because there is only a certain type of person who would do it. go on a boat waiting for this, you know, or lead a hard life, but it was with these very different life experiences under his belt that he returned to Edinburgh to resume his studies at medical school, he could have no idea that his time here he was going to provide the inspiration for the creation of homes it was common for students to carry out extramural studies which Conan Doyle did in the course of those studies he found the man who more than any other became a true inspiration for the character of Sherlock Holmes and that man was dr.

Joseph Bell knew Bell because he taught clinical surgery to Conan Doyle at the University of Edinburgh. He was a very popular surgeon. There he filled audiences with students and not only showed them surgical techniques, but also made various deductions and observations. About the people he was dealing with, many who knew Belle noted that the eminent lecturer's physical attributes were remarkably similar to those of the fictional Sherlock Holmes. Conan Doyle has recorded his memories of Bell, who was thin, high-nosed, eagle-faced and had a staggered walk and a shrill voice. Holmes' voice is not mentioned in descriptive terms very often, but when you go back to the stories, he is described as having a strident voice, as is Joseph Bell, as are the other characteristics of Sherlock Holmes.

They directly relate the poet's sportsmen and birdwatchers' character to Bell; However, what is most significant in relation to Sherlock Holmes is also the fundamental characteristic of his famous and brilliant diagnostic mind. Joe Bell was not only a medical diagnostician that he was brilliant at, but he was brilliant too. a master at looking at a person and being able to tell them their occupation their place of residence their status in life Sherlock Holmes is best known for his deductive reasoning and that was something that largely arose from Conan Doyle's medical training which was You know Josef Belva had used that kind of argument, he would look for clues just by looking at the complaints and things about the patient.

Bell could discover a lot about his background. Doyle probably met Belle for the first time in 1878 in an outpatient clinical surgery class. The students were present and the first patient was shown before the patient could open his mouth, the patient was told I am, I am an ICU who has been in the army not long ago, recently discharged non-commissioned officer from the Highland Regiment in Barbados and when asked, do you know how the hell he could? You know all these things Bell says you see, gentlemen, the man was respectful but he didn't take off his hat, they don't do that in the army, but he would have learned the civil customs if he hadn't been discharged for too long, he has an air of authority and he is obviously Scottish as to Barbados, his complaint is elephantitis, that he was West Indian and not British, when the students of course loved this performance, that's what it was, it was him showing them how to be observant.

Doyle remembered it well, looked at it and started using it. Years and years later, when he created Sherlock Holmes, although there are clearly elements of Bell in Holmes's behavior and Conan Doyle seems to have recognized this in a letter he wrote to his former professor, there is ample evidence that Holmes is also influenced by other people he met during his student life, but he actually embodies several people, especially in the early stages, he turned to these people to build homes, but after drawing them, the houses began to move by himself. We are here in an Indian cemetery some distance from the center of Edinburgh and the university's medical school and next to a boundary wall of the cemetery is the grave of dr.

Joseph Bell, who Conan Doyle said he owed Sherlock Holmes scholars to, would seem to agree because, honestly, the only real similarity between Char Combs and Dr. Joseph Bell is Holmes' amazing skill for the doctor, so Bell's benign character may not have been the strongest influence on the creation of Sherlock Holmes. As we delve deeper into the life of Conan Doyle, more disturbing influences behind the character begin to emerge. Is there a darker side to this? story well in 1875 a man named dr. Brian CharlesWaller had become the tenant of the door and, since we were here, that was influential in persuading Conan Doyle to study medicine.

In fact, Brian Charles Waller will become one of the first influences on the real Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock Holmes has a dark side. It has been suggested that this is influenced by a man whom Conan Doyle must have known quite well. Brian Charles's wallet, as Doyle's financial situation worsened due to Doyle's excessive drinking on the channel, the ball of grief rated: The Doyle family certainly saved them from the asylum. bran transfollow that he was a doctor of pathology and was looking for a place at the University and called himself a consultant pathologist and, in fact, Colin Doyle would use that initially to start Sherlock Holmes the rules as a consulting detective.

He was also a very bossy individual, extremely full of himself, quite the child of answers, very quick in his decisions and in some ways, so aware of how much he knew, as they were positively unpleasant. One of the important things that the stroller transfollow put into the character of Sherlock Holmes was the unlikable aspect of them. Holmes begins to dislike Watson quite a bit and is won over. upon discovering that in reality hose is not a charlatan but there is a lot in his work voila he seems to have been a pretty good doctor a good research doctor although as a commentator on other doctors he was incredibly cruel and in fact Holmes is ruthless about everyone from the creations of Reiniger Allan Poe, Scotland Yard Inspectors are borrowed heavily from Waller, whether or not Holmes was influenced by Waller.

Conan Doyle's relationship with him has been very complex and possibly disturbing because I'm not sure Asif Conan. Doyle got on very well with Lola, she was a great influence on the family, what we do know definitively is that Mary Doyle's mother Glennon Doyle after her husband's death moved from Edinburgh, in fact she was given a cottage in Yorkshire on the estate of Bryan Charles Walla where he lived. in the big house where she lived in the cabin he may have been in love with Conan Doyle's older sister there are some signs that he wrote a poem about her music but he may also have been in love with Conan Doyle's mother voila he evidently took good very good with mrs.

Doyle but another curious fact is that one of his sisters and Mark this sister was called Brian it could be that Warner's influences on Sherlock Holmes were behind the diol murder of his character but this was a fictional attempt to get rid of a disturbing aspect of In his lifetime, it is conceivable that this could be one of the reasons behind the murder of Sherlock Holmes. Accusations of adultery may have been made. Whether we had anything in it, I think it's very doubtful, but certainly Conan Doyle may have feared that there actually was a physical relationship.

His father's imprisonment in the asylum must have had a profound psychological effect on young Conan Doyle due to such early psychological problems. He experiences the ancestry of his father, the influence of Wallas and the difficulties of the early years of his life. As expected, Conan Doyle brought darker elements to the character of the homes that could be found disturbing evidence of strong changes. in the mood. Much has been made of the fact that he used cocaine, Watson reports, but when Holmes was bored and his mind was not challenged, he took cocaine in a 7% solution. This was not a strong dose, but it was enough to form a habit, dr.

Watson on several occasions warned Holmes against using cocaine, but he continued to consume a substance and very quickly after this disturbing aspect of Holmes' character, many questioned the author's motives for depicting his hero as flawed and fallible, but the Connections with his early life seemed to emerge clearly there, of course, it is a euphemism for Conan Doyle's father's drinking, so far he hopes to consume cocaine, live all together, it is surprising that Holmes had a serious addiction. All of Watson's descriptions of Holmes's nervous activity make clear the restlessness, the ability to work for days without sufficient sleep. and even without rest, the abrupt mood swings and equally abrupt descents into a coma tend to suggest prolonged use as a strong narcotic.

In addition to the psychological influences on the formation of Sherlock Holmes's character, there is also society itself in the that Holmes is set and the stories develop. Conan Doyle could not help but be aware of the darkest aspects of the time in which he lived. Victorian society in the late 19th century was seemingly faced with success and yet a constant fear of things going wrong. The Sherlock Holmes stories take place between 1881 and 1903, during this time, the latter part of the Victorian period, the British Empire was at its peak and London was the center of all things;

However, despite the apparent stability of the Empire, many felt that this was the final chapter of In an Age There Is a Paradox Surrounding Sherlock Holmes. What is the extraordinary quality that makes this eccentric 19th century Victorian detective such a phenomenon? What was it about him that so captured the imagination of the Victorian public? There seems to be something in these stories that matters. in society as the exciting, different but terrifying world of the 20th century unfolded, a century that threatened to dismantle everything that was known and everything that had ever seemed, certain readers of the stories of Sherlock Holmes were attracted to the tranquility of the one who knows everything.

Detective, he always fixed things in the end, even then people were beginning to have railways, the London Underground had begun, the automobile came later in the new century, but this world of Sherlock Holmes stories is gaslight and trains of cars. Yes, steam trains, but people are not looking at modern technology and I think people were looking back to an earlier, safer time, when they were on the verge of a really important social revolution, whose short stories to the coffin were became famous in the 1890s, a time when London was growing at a tremendous rate and Lee was very frightening to the average magazine reader who would find in this magazine a series of stories about a man who could make sense of a huge, howling metropolitan desert working on solid professional grounds and professionalism was coming. in more and more someone who was not too official and adventure, omniscience, professionalism, science, all opening up a new and exciting world while making sense of the terrifying one that exists, and so it was in the fall of 1887 before After the arrival of Jack the Ripper on the streets of Whitechapel during the following year London was ready for the arrival of the brilliant but eccentric detective Sherlock Holmes, readers would be familiar from the press with people like Jack the Ripper and therefore believed in people with supreme evil. and the terrible crimes they could commit and would be based on these experiences when reading the Sherlock Holmes stories, when Watson would write about people who were the worst man in London or an evil person etc., darkness and light would have been the food Daily for curling Doyle now practices as a junior doctor in South Sea, in the south of England, during the long wait for patients in his office, he wrote stories and later remembered how he divided his time between his patients and literature, it is difficult to say.

What suffered the most there is what Conan Doyle knew and his medical practice in the South Seas didn't have many patients during the summer months, mainly in the winter months, with coughs and colds and that sort of thing, so during During those long periods when he began writing, he wrote a few letters to newspapers and some short articles, but he had aspirations of writing a novel after several initial rejections. Holmes first appeared in a 200-page novel with the title A Study in Scarlet. Conan Doyle found an unusual outlet for his debut in the 1887 edition of Beaton's colorful Christmas yearbook, he was one of the highlights of the 1887 yearbook and it was from there that an Australian magazine approached him to be and actually make the Sherlock Holmes stories, the home stories had arrived at the right time and the readership grew rapidly putting Conan Doyle and his creation on the path to making publishing history as I walk down the Paul Street wing of the cheerfully burnt-out street and here on the left is number two at the top of Wimpole Street because it was here that that candle set up shop as an ophthalmologist but his patients were conspicuous by their absence so he sat there waiting for them to arrive and started playing with the characters of Holmes and Watson and this is really an important direction as far as both Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes are concerned because although it may not be the birthplace of Sherlock Holmes, this is certainly the place where Sherlock Holmes began to mature and very quickly the circulation rose to 500,000 and then the real test came when editor after editor had to have their family magazines, so in fact, The New World was created by Sherlock Holmes in a whole series of ways, he didn't think much in none of the other tellers of murder mystery stories and he was the first who tried to construct it properly and tried to make the characterizations and definitively.

It was the public response that grew and grew and grew and made it so popular when Conan Doyle was serializing Sherlock Holmes in Strand, The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1901 and then with The Valley of Fear people were so hooked that they They made sure they didn't miss an episode in that sense, Conan Doyle really prefigured some of the modern soap operas, not only did Conan Doyle possibly create the soap opera, but they also definitely created a new type of fiction, the Sherlock Holmes stories were the beginning of detective stories as a genre and were on their way at the beginning of what we see now mainly on television, the modern detective fiction novel and the play or television series is mainly based on the formula proposed by Colonel, not just in the fact that there are two characters, it's also the fact of deductive reasoning and so on without that you probably wouldn't have the very popular CSI series, it certainly wouldn't be unfair to say that Conan Doyle is the father of pop The godfather of all fiction modern detective story, the new innovation of The Detective Story was taking the literary world by storm in a world filled with the likes of Edgar Allen Poe and Robert Louis Stevenson.

They may all have used detective characters and the mystery story to bring life to their works, but now many have forgotten that it was the original Quality of Sherlock Holmes that would give rise to the next revolution in literature based on mystery and mystery. detective work. Watzmann of Homes was the first detective couple and since then virtually every other successful detective has been a couple with Owen Hastings and it is often said not to. They must be descendants of homes and Watson Generally the formula these days is to have a pair of detectives one smart one not so smart however Conan Doyle's likeable and believable characters are combined with equally unpleasant characters careful studies of the darkest manifestations of human nature what was It is in Victorian society or even Conan Doyle that the creation of characters like Moriarty when based on some perceived evil in society that the writer had identified as villains is as real as the hero himself, it is also very significant that the villains are usually the middle class around Socratic figures the ruffian what the blunderbuss is not the problem who imagines who should help society maintain the faith of society who would infect by exploiting and destroying it Moriarty is a kind of mythical figure , he is always there on the edge, but he is not evil although I think Holmes describes him as evil, what really seems to have inspired Conan Doyle to portray completely evil characters is actually domestic violence, the probable influence of his own father's alcoholism and any violence that that may have led to within their own family and we do.

I see that in the stories and that is certainly more horrifying to Lee, the current reader, than Professor Moriarty's ingenious plans. I think there's certainly a better link because people in those times weren't as sophisticated and there was a lot of superstition in the general public that wanted to believe in things like ghosts and spectral dogs and so on, so I think it fed into what the public expected. existed or hoped to exist, it seems then that what made it a phenomenon like the Edwardian The Age When It Dawned was that the stories had captured a popular mood and that most could identify strongly with the adventures of Holmes and Watson .

There was certainly an appetite in the Republic for gruesome murders. The horror and seemingly motiveless evil of the Jack the Ripper murders. Holmes was present. not as an escapist figure, not countingescapist stories, but saying that bad things are happening but they can be addressed and that the stories are full of social tragedies, things that Holmes can only explain and tragedies that he cannot remedy, that is one of the great things about stories that do not they try to simply give you an entry into a world that doesn't exist, then you have a host of villains, all of whom are perfectly characterized and painted perfectly so that the reader can believe in these characters again and again.

It's because they were so believable that when he was

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people thought he was a real person and they put him on the street with bracelets in his memory, it's not hard to imagine readers of The Strand Magazine walking around their London picking up their latest news. story to read Holmes his latest adventures in a family environment that they knew and understood and such was his popularity that in a matter of months he eclipsed his creator and it would be the fictional Sherlock Holmes who would go on to achieve immortality, leaving his author with a dilemma, The question is, having created this entire world of characters and, in particular, having created the character of Sherlock Holmes, why did he decide to kill him to murder his own creation?

Doyle was enjoying new fame and financial success, but as a writer he was frustrated. that his life was being dedicated and overwhelmed by the all-powerful character of Holmes; wanted to write serious fiction in late 1891. Conan Doyle was growing tired of his creation and the parallel existence of the Sherlock Holmes character with his own line, perhaps feeling that Holmes was overshadowing his more serious work, I mean, the character became charge of the life of Conan Doyle, without a doubt, Conan Doyle certainly had high aspirations for his writing, the characters were the first in which Sherlock Holmes took on the life of Condor for some.

Conan Doyle was perhaps not a writer in the great tradition. and his creation of Holmes had brought him into the category of pulp fiction in this sense, it is not difficult to understand that she Holmes could have become greater than he thought. I would say it again, I will content myself with saying that he was not a literary person. He hardly read any other books even though we have a library. Actually, I'm not sure he read anything. I don't think he was a cultured person because of what is known about his life and his influences. Three possible reasons arise for the writer's motivation for removing Holmes from his life, the simple answer would perhaps relate to his feelings about himself as an author, the first reason being his ambition to do something a little more interesting, the second it could be his need to confront his possible shortcomings as an author.

The truly great writer Conan Doyle wants to be remembered not for this fictional creation but rather for his historical novels, his historical writing, his more serious work and I think that was probably why he wanted to kill him and was quite ambitious for himself. , so although these books had made him a good career and made him money, he then wanted to continue and had higher aspirations. Conan Doyle was very satisfied with his creation, but from the middle of the first series of stories he felt strongly that the home stories were a trick job and that they brought him money. what he really wanted to do was write stories of chivalry and exploits;

Doing this is the kind of thing he thought was really important. The third argument is perhaps more complex than the obvious one, namely that he was tired of the character. Could it be that? The darkest aspect of his life was somehow tied to his Holmes character in a way that his creator could no longer tolerate. Overwhelmed by the Sherlock Holmes phenomenon, Conan Doyle was finally rejecting his dark alter ego and perhaps only one early life experiences. I don't think there was anything in Sherlock Holmes that Colin Doyle didn't really like, but the stories are written incredibly close to the surface.

Conan Doyle wrote them in Solstein. He made very few alterations to most of them after he had written them, meaning that they were actually reflective of his own life much more perhaps than we realized, clearly Conan Doyle was writing about the more difficult sides of his life. own life when he writes about alcoholism, drug addiction and violence, so it's not surprising, but having talked about it, you should want to get rid of it. of them permanently through his fictional character, even before finishing writing the first dozen stories, he told his mother that he wanted the last one to be absolutely the last, he wanted to commit suicide on Father's Day, you can't, you must, you should not.

He knew something good when he saw him for a while, however his mother's words were ignored. His creator was about to make the most important decision of his career. Conan Doyle was quickly coming to the conclusion that he must kill Sherlock Holmes, but how would he handle it? After the murder was decided upon a radical solution to his dilemma, Conan Doyle wrote to his mother informing her that he intended to kill him for good and all that brings to mind better things. Conan Doyle, in fact, wrote a second series and in the end was absolutely determined to get rid of Sherlock Holmes in the final issue published in The Strand in December 1893.

Holmes met Professor Moriarty, his archenemy, for the last time in a mutually fatal confrontation. Having been on holiday in Switzerland, he was introduced to the famous halls of Brighton Bark. who thought it would be a splendid resting place for poor Sherlock, however, getting rid of the houses and not proving as easy as the first lands, said he had every intention of leaving it there, even if it did bury my bank account along with it The public, of course, were not happy about it, after all, the decision was to ruin the Victorian public to the core after the final issue was printed.

Doyle received letters from distraught readers, crying, they couldn't let Holmes go when Holmes was murdered in the The final problem is that some of the city workers went around London wearing black armbands in memory of Sherlock Holmes thinking he was a real character and magazine sales plummeted. Members of the royal family were said to be distraught because there was a massive revolt by the general public with the Strand magazine and Conan Doyle as its targets, what is certainly true is that the editor, publisher and author received angry letters of the readers. Conan Doyle cheerfully quotes one of his in his autobiography of a lady.

It began, you are not afraid. The story of Conan Doyle's mother soon became a reality when 20,000 readers canceled their subscription to Strand magazine in outrage at the death of their detective hero. Conan Doyle was overwhelmed by the reaction, however, he was soon distracted from his public uproar by a personal tragedy that would rock the author's world. Since his foundation his wife Louisa was diagnosed with tuberculosis, the current oil chose to take care of her himself and his dedication and devotion kept her alive until the 20th century, but this will be only the first of a series of blows for the writer with the death of his father Charles. and later his son Kingsley in the great war of 1914-18, these combined tensions may have sown the seeds of the author's new passion for occultism and spiritualism, the belief that the spirits of the dead can communicate with the living or, as he called In life beyond the veil, seeking solace for these personal tragedies, he became one of their greatest exponents, but the next development of his life was to demonstrate that he was still at the top of his game.

I play as the supreme writer of detective fiction for the next eight years. He excluded Holmes from his life and concentrated on his other work, but in 1901 he had an idea for perhaps his most legendary work to date, one that would leave its mark on generations to come, but this novel needed a detective, he did not want to create a new character, why not use Holmes? The Hound of the Baskervilles was a resounding success and remains one of the most performed stories today. What he didn't do was bring Holmes back to life. He presented the Hound of the Baskervilles as an adventure that had occurred.

Before the events at Reichenbach Falls, an American editor said, name your figure, so Conan Doyle named a figure that he thought was too high and he would just send the American editor packing and the editor turned around and said : well, when are you going to send the first one? one of this creator and all, I think that's still true today, the highest paid per word author out there. It could have been, they were removed, I suppose, by JK Rowling, but there are very few others who can make that claim. The dogs' reception showed the passion for this great detective was as strong as ever, inevitably the story was so popular that it was suggested that Holmes be brought back to life, but after all, as someone pointed out, it provided Holmes with death, Conan Doyle finally gave in to the public demand for more Holmes stories in 1903.

He resurrected Holmes in the Empty House with an explanation of how Holmes hadn't really dipped into the falls after all, well, there are one or two opinions. about the meaning of the mysterious years. All the great pauses are known, but to explain the absence, Conan Doyle had Holmes. he went off on his own, met the Armor who denies him, and did various other things for the crown heads of Europe, etc., and we could basically say he took a sabbatical for a few years, but Holmes had never actually left shortly before its reemergence. an American business act, so William Gillette expressed interest in reviving the character of Holmes by playing the role on stage, however, Gillette wanted to update the story and with some apprehension wrote to Conan Doyle, humbly proposing some minor changes.

William Janette went from writing a sieve. and said, "I can marry Sherlock Holmes, the Colonel" was so disinterested at the time that he said, "you can do with him, you know what you want," and this reaction to Gillette seems to suggest the continuing and complex relationship that Conan Doyle had with the character he had created when the actor arrived in England and met with Doyle to read him the almost completely revised play. Conan Doyle gave him his full attention and as the meeting came to a close he spent a moment thinking that his announcement was as revealing as it was contradictory.

It's good to see the old man again. I think Conan Doyle's relationship with his character towards the end of his life was more of an object relationship than one of height. On the one hand, he probably loved the character quite a bit because he gave him power, he made him known. gave him money, of course, but on the other hand, if the lure really just wanted to do, which was spiritualism and his historical writings, etc., it was very much a double-edged sword for him and a love-hate relationship. , this was 1914 Conan Doyle could not imagine that the fictional world he had created would soon be eclipsed by tragedy and that the old order the writer had known would be lost in the trenches of northern France with the outbreak of the World War.

Conan Doyle's personal life was to change tragically it was to the spiritualist movement that Conan Doyle would change the game. Doyle's interest in spiritualism did not really flourish, I suppose until after the great war, when both his son Kingsley and his brother Ennis were murdered, particularly he became a spiritualist because After World War I, he was acutely aware of the people who had died because of it, including his son and brother. He traveled a lot after spiritualism, he went to Australia, the United States, he gave lectures, he could write a story and earn a good income. and then re-immerse him in what he truly believed was his primary purpose in life: to spread the message of spiritualism.

Condor's legacy was to extend far beyond what he could have imagined when creating the household character through just a series of short adventure stories. had given rise to a new popular culture, had brought one of the most enduring heroes to a new generation of readers and had brought the science of deduction into the 20th century if this had been solved, his demons could Holmes be allowed to fade away? in the dark when did he say? that Holmes had retired to Sussex to keep bees. Conan Doyle himself received letters addressed to Sherlock Holmes. He took care of Arthur.

Conan Doyle: Door continued to write Sherlock Holmes tours from time to time almost until the end of his life. It was a mood of resigned acceptance. writing a story and taking whatever figure the slightly deranged editors were willing to give him for it, having

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Holmes in the final issue, then resurrected him and restored him to public adoration, he decided to simply let his hero retire gracefully from London. Reflecting the author's own life in this time for the world's greatest detective, long walks on the Sussex Downs and beekeeping would become the activities of Holmes's final years and in 1927 Conan Doyle had decided it was time for his creation taking his last bath while writing the last lines of the adventure of the old place of Sjostrom it was clear that finallyhe had read in the great adventure houses he interrupted it leaving the public wanting much more he was not going to become a soap maker he wanted to give in to new forms of writing and What he did when the final stories were published in book form as the book of Sherlock Holmes cases.

Conan Doyle added his own farewell to his creation. I'm afraid mr. Sherlock Holmes may have become one of those popular tennis players who, having outlived their time, are still tempted to make repeated empowered send-offs to their indulgent audiences. This must cease and must go the way of everything carnal, material or imaginary. He died on July 7, 1930. A New York newspaper dedicated his front-page advice and treated its readers to the unintentionally humorous medical journal, Conan Doyle's The Diaries of Sherlock Holmes Fame, but it was the Daily Herald that which made the most memorable announcement, confirming for many the extraordinary relationship that had now been established between the author and The creation Doyle had left behind a lasting and substantial legacy the four novels and 56 short stories about his fictional detective.

Ironically, his other writings are largely forgotten. Perhaps it is significant as long as he wanted to honor the birth of his favorite child here in Piketty. place they chose not a statue of Arthur Conan Doyle but a statue of his creation Sherlock Holmes in death as in life Conan Doyle was overshadowed by his famous creation, in fact with a cruel twist of irony given that Charles's childhood was ruined by his father's alcoholism. The only real monument to Conan Doyle's birth here, apart from the rather nondescript plaque on the wall, is across the road where we have a pub called Conan Doyle, but we are still faced with the fact that today people will think of Sherlock Holmes without thinking about Conan Doyle is unfair, without Connor Doyle there would have been no Sherlock Holmes.

What is it about this eccentric 19th century detective that made him so unique? What is that extraordinary quality that makes it such a phenomenon and why is it still relevant? even today, but it is he who still has the ability to hold our attention and attract 21st century audiences with blockbuster movies and TV shows around the world. He is curious. I guess a character that was created over 120 years ago should still be popular. and is still considered relevant, he is something of a bohemian who appeals to the rebel in all of us to Victorian audiences. Sherlock Holmes was seen ahead of his time in his deductions and his actions, etc., for a 21st century audience. century is quite the opposite, it sees it as a link in time with another perhaps better era, since people would perceive it, but where their values, their instincts and their deductions are equally valid now as they were then, despite the passions. that Sherlock Holmes aroused throughout his fictional life in the following years and interest in adult stories.

A growing number of people claim that there was a real Holmes, the man of course is fictional, this at least seems certain, although there is a world that wishes he existed. We are drawn, I think, to something that is safe and dangerous because it is in the past. surely also because we know that Sherlock Holmes is there and he will get us out of this, while mystery and intrigue still surround The Legend of Sherlock Holmes, there is something in these stories that makes the reader try to dig below the surface to find out. itself. something bigger than the stories perhaps the reason is simple Doyle or Watson were a wonderful storyteller the original adventures of Holmes remain bestsellers and have been translated into over 50 languages ​​the legend has evolved and taken on a life of its own while ensuring a life after death unusual for both Holmes and his creator.

Tourists still make pilgrimages to Baker Street in search of the real home of the great detective, but why do they still come and pay homage to the houses and, by default, to today's oil? There is the fact that for the modern audience. and modern readers and scholars will use it as a window to look back in time, to the almost perfect characterization of the Victorian period, the character types, the locations and how things really worked in Victorian society, modern life during The last century has lost a lot. From the certainties we had before, now you don't know what is going to happen in the next five years and you don't really know who you can trust and you go back to look for Sherlock Holmes, who will solve the problem. and saving the world is quite a comforting thing. clearly there is something of Conan Doyle in Sherlock Holmes perhaps it is just his humanity the combination of light and darkness together something perhaps central to the makeup of every human being there is a bit of Sherlock Holmes in the assault and there is also a part of us who would like to be transported back to this Victorian ear of foggy streets and so on, where everything was exciting, we had a British Empire in full swing in this little veneer as it would be to restore Victorian respectability which they would like to inhabit, But would Conan Doyle have felt gratified by his character's immortality in the face of his attempts to get rid of him?

I wouldn't know the answer to that, but there's something endearing about it. wait, I guess and Watson, a couple of good friends who solve problems and it seems like it's a formula that stuck and worked, but the main relevance really is in the character of Sherlock Holmes, as I said, the bohemian man. Perhaps we would all like to know if his goal was to have such a close relationship is debatable, however, some see Sherlock Holmes as: the voice of the doors on humanity, whether the author likes it or not. Sherlock Holmes continues to live, I think especially because when we get down to it, human beings know that what differentiates them from animals is their mind and Allah Combs' quest is the celebration of the mind, it is to turn the mind into a fascinating figure.

It seems justifiably likely that Sherlock Holmes enjoys human beings when we respond to Sherlock Holmes, perhaps the truth is that we are responding to Condor Kondal may have been the man who murdered Sherlock Holmes, but both the character and the author remain alive in the minds of those who continue to read his works