How Do You Sample Fictions Great Detectives?
Are you hooked on Law & Order, C.S.I., Criminal Minds or Numb3rs? Have you always figured out whodunit moments before the detectives cracked the case? Eager for even more great sleuthing? Then come with me as I guide you through the best classic detective novels (and films) of all time! Begin your enjoyment with the most well-known detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes, and his creator, British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930). Colorful in his own right, Conan Doyle trained as a medical doctor, studying nerve degeneration, and was a football (soccer) goalie, ophthalmologist, pacifist, cricket player, spiritualist, avid golfer, political activist, and pamphleteer. Sir Arthur was also a prolific writer who produced scores of works of science fiction, plays, poetry, historical fiction, romances and non-fiction. In ‘A Study in Scarlet’ (1887), he introduced Sherlock Holmes, who, accompanied by his friend Dr. Watson, relied on astute observation, inference and deductive reasoning
