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Doyle is best known for writing the Sherlock Holmes mysteries, his claim to fame. In addition he also wrote historical and historical fiction novels. There are four Sherlock Holmes novels as well as five short story collections.

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote some books about the detective Sherlock Holmes (The Adventures of sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles), fictional adventures of Professor Challenger and a lot of others.

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Best estimates of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's writing counts:

Sherlock Holmes series (4 novels, 56 short stories)

Professor Challenger series (5 novels)

Brigadier Gerard series (18 short stories)

Other miscellany (19 novels, 115 short stories, 13 plays [2 co-written], 81 poems, 12 pamphlets)

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He wrote a series of short stories called 'Tales of Terror and Mystery,' a novel called 'The Mystery of Cloomber,' and his very first story was titled 'The Mystery of Sasassa Valley.' Then he persisted in sating the public with some character called Sherlock Holmes.

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He wrote the original Sherlock Holmes series.

Sherlock Holmes

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he wrote Sherlock Holmes and other books

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The Sign Of Four, The Valley Of Fear and the Hound Of The Baskervilles are three of the more than 20 novels written by Arthur Conan Doyle and the three are equally good and famous.

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The simple answer is Sherlock Holmes of course but did you know he also wrote about his professor Joseph Bell in the crime drama 'The Murder Rooms'.

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Sherlock Holmes

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the hound of the baskervilles

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