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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died on July 7, 1930. The events of the The Hound of the Baskervilles are set before those of 'The Final Problem' but in 1903 new Sherlock Holmes stories began to appear that revealed that the detective had not died after all. However Holmes was so popular that Conan Doyle eventually relented and published The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1901. In 1893 Conan Doyle published 'The Final Problem' in which he killed off his famous detective so that he could turn his attention more towards historical fiction. This was followed in 1889 by an historical novel, Micah Clarke. His most famous creation is the detective Sherlock Holmes, who he introduced in his first novel A Study in Scarlet (1887). Over his life he produced more than thirty books, 150 short stories, poems, plays and essays across a wide range of genres. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and began to write stories while he was a student. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born on in Edinburgh. of the significant adventures of the iconoclastic detective The Adventure of the Speckled Band, The Musgrave Ritual, A Scandal in Bohemia, and The Five Orange.
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