Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was the doctor who, ironically, became famous for creating a detective more brilliant than any diagnosis he had ever made.

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Born in 1859 in Scotland, he invented Sherlock Holmes almost as a hobby, inspired by a medical professor who was a master in the art of deduction. The success was so resounding that Doyle tried to kill Holmes in 1893 to devote himself to ‘more serious things’ - but the fury of his fans led him to resurrect the detective a few years later.

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As well as writing mysteries, he also ventured into science fiction and, surprisingly, spiritualism, believing more in ghosts than criminal clues. He died in 1930, but his creation lives on, proving that, in the end, Holmes' logic always wins out - even over the author's own esoteric beliefs.