The complete online text of Beyond the City by Arthur Conan Doyle.

The British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) is best remembered as the creator of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on May 22, 1859, into an Irish Roman Catholic family of noted artistic ac...

It is difficult to imagine the shape which detective fiction might have taken had it not been for the creation by Arthur Conan Doyle of Sherlock Holmes. Conan Doyle took a form of fiction which had become popular through the works of his predecessors, Ed...

Arthur Conan Doyle is best known for his short stories and novels about Sherlock Holmes, whom Jon L. Lellenberg describes in The Quest for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Thirteen Biographies in Search of a Life (1987) as "the most universally recognized fiction...

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