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The eighth instalment in Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection, narrated by Stephen Fry.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859 and died in
1930. Within those years was crowded a variety of activity and
creative work that made him an international figure and inspired
the French to give him the epithet 'the good giant'. He was the
nephew of 'Dickie Doyle' the artist, and was educated at
Stonyhurst, and later studied medicine at Edinburgh University,
where the methods of diagnosis of one of the professors provided
the idea for the methods of deduction used by Sherlock Holmes.
He set up as a doctor at Southsea and it was while waiting for
patients that he began to write. His growing success as an author
enabled him to give up his practice and turn his attention to other
subjects.
His greatest achievement was, of course, his creation of Sherlock
Holmes, who soon attained international status and constantly
distracted him from his other work; at one time Conan Doyle killed
him but was obliged by public protest to restore him to life. And
in his creation of Dr Watson, Holmes's companion in adventure and
chronicler, Conan Doyle produced not only a perfect foil for Holmes
but also one of the most famous narrators in fiction. Stephen John
Fry is an English comedian, writer, actor, humourist, novelist,
poet, columnist, filmmaker, television personality and technophile.
As one half of the Fry and Laurie double act with his comedy
partner, Hugh Laurie, he has appeared in A Bit of Fry and Laurie
and Jeeves and Wooster. He is also famous for his roles in
Blackadder and Wilde, and as the host of QI. In addition to writing
for stage, screen, television and radio he has contributed columns
and articles for numerous newspapers and magazines, and has also
written four successful novels and a series of memoirs.
See also Mrs. Stephen Fry as a pseudonym of the author. Stephen Fry
is an English comedian, actor, writer, presenter and activist.
Fry’s acting roles include a Golden Globe Award-nominated lead
performance in the film Wilde, plus roles in Blackadder, Kingdom,
Bones and V for Vendetta. He has also written and presented several
documentary series and was the long-time host of the BBC television
quiz show QI. Besides working in television, Fry has contributed
columns and articles for newspapers and magazines and written four
novels and three volumes of autobiography, Moab Is My Washpot, The
Fry Chronicles and More Fool Me. Fry is also known for his voice
overs and reading all seven of the Harry Potter novels for the UK
audiobook recordings.
'... it was reading the Sherlock Holmes stories as a boy that first
turned me on to the power of writing and storytelling.'
*Stephen Fry*
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