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INTRODUCTION

My name is Maria Teresa, I was born in Medellin in October 13th, I live in Villa Hermosa Los Angeles, with my father and my brother. My mother died two years ago. She was an excellent mother and she was my most precious gift from god. I miss her a lot.

I am technical systems and I worked in Estudio de Moda S.A for four years. Now I work independently.

THE AUTHOR

Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1859. Doyle's family (Conan was his middle name, and it was only later in life that he began to use it as his surname) sent him to Jesuit boarding schools to be educated, and he later entered the University of Edinburgh Medical School in 1881.

One of his professors at the university was Dr. Joseph Bell, who became the model for Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. It was Bell who drummed into Doyle's head the importance of using his innate powers of observation to help him deduce the nature of a patient's affliction.

While in school, Conan Doyle began writing to earn a little extra money. His first story, The Mystery of the Sasassa Valley was published in the Chambers' Journal in 1879.

Shortly after, his father fell ill, and Doyle was forced to become the breadwinner for the family. He worked for a time as a ship's doctor, then opened his own medical practice near Portsmouth. In his spare time he did more writing.


WORKS

The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard (1896)
Rodney Stone (1896)
Uncle Bernac (1897)
The Tragedy of the Korosko / A Desert Drama (1898)
The Green Flag and Other Stories of War and Sport (1900)
Adventures of Gerard (1903)
Sir Nigel (1906)
The Croxley Master (1907)
Waterloo (1907)
Round the Fire Stories (1908)
Songs of the Road (1911)
The Last Galley (1911)
The Speckled Band (Play) (1912)
The Lost World (1912)
The Poison Belt (1913)
Danger! and Other Stories (1918)
The Land of Mist (1926)