Arthur Conan Doyle: a life in letters

The schoolboy (1867-1876)

The medical student (1876-1882)

The struggling doctor (1882-1884)

Cracking the oyster (1884-1890)

"Author of Sherlock Holmes" (1891-1893)

Putting Holmes behind him (1894-1896)

Country life (1896-1898)

War in South Africa (1899-1900)

Politics and honours (1900-1902)

The final Hindhead years (1903-1907)

Windlesham to the outbreak of war (1907-1914)

The World War (1914-1918)

His last crusade (1918-1920)

Epilogue : Conan Doyle's final decade.