After staying in Switzerland for four years, Conan Doyle and the family move back to England, where Conan Doyle meets Jean Leckie. More and more books get published, a duet with an Occasional Chorus, a year before Conan Doyle serves in the Boer War.
In 1901, Conan Doyle’s most famous novel is published in The Strand magazine, The Hound of the Baskervilles.
The following year, The War in South Africa: Its Causes and Conduct was published, for which Conan Doyle was knighted.
Two years later, because of The Return of Sherlock Holmes being published, Conan Doyle was made a member of the Crimes Club. Conan Doyle, later gets Sir Nigel published.
In 1906, Louise died at the age of forty-nine. After this Conan Doyle began the investigation of the George Edalji case.
After just one year of his wife dying, Conan Doyle married his friend Jean Leckie, to which Denis Percy Stewart Conan Doyle was born.
Conan Doyle later writes The Crime of the Congo.
In 1910, Conan Doyle became involved in the Oscar Slater case, after which, Adrian Malcom was born to Jean and Arthur. After the birth of their two sons, Conan Doyle and Jean participated in the Prince Henry Tour.
In 1912, The Lost World was published and Lena Jean Annette was born to Jean and Arthur. Conan Doyle also started an argument with George Bernard Shaw about the Titanic. Conan Doyle’s next novel, The Poison Belt was published.
Conan Doyle revisited the United States in 1914 and his other famous novel, The Valley of Fear was published in book form.
Conan Doyle declared his belied in Spiritualism in the Light magazine and later spoke publicly on Spiritualism for the first time.
His other famous novel Last Bow was published in 1917.
The following year was a tragic year because his son, Kingsley, died and his brother, Innes, also died.
In 1920, Conan Doyle wrote about the Cottingley fairies in the December issue of The Strand.
After this Conan Doyle later meets Houdini. Jean Conan Doyle discovered that she had the ability to do automatic writing, in 1921.
The Coming of the Fairies was published in 1922, after which, Jean Conan Doyle attempted to contact Houdini’s mother.
In 1925, The Lost World was made into a film and The Land of Mist was published. Conan Doyle’s spiritualism was a step forward for the History of Spiritualism, which was published in 1926.
The third and final Sherlock Holmes novels, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes was published in 1927 and after the most famous stories, only second to the bible, were published, Conan Doyle launched a five-month tour Africa.
Two years later, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died on July 8th 1930. He was buried at the rose garden in Windlesham.
London's poor tried to scrape a living doing jobs which one can only imagine the Devil himself thought up. River Men made their living from fishing from drowned bodies, and Scavengers searched the sewers and rubbish tips for coins or rope to sell on. London's docks expanded rapidly. Smaller boats, mainly carrying cargoes such as coal and grain from other British ports, still used riverside wharves, but congestion on the Thames was such that purpose-built docks were needed to handle the big ocean-going vessels. Whole new villages and communities grew up to serve the docks, but poverty was endemic because the wages were extremely low. London became an increasingly stratified city, with a relatively prosperous West End and a poor East End.
Victorian England, at any rate until its final years, was a deeply religious country. A great number of people were habitual church or chapel-goers, at least once and probably twice, every Sunday. The Bible was frequently and widely read by people of every class; so too were such books as John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. Yet towards the end of Queen Victoria's reign, the hold of organised religion upon the English people began to slacken. This was due in part to the expansion in the range of careers for university graduates, many of whom chose to go into education, business and scientific work rather than become priests or ministers. The depression in agriculture brought the stipends of the country clergy, dependent on tithes, down and recruitment to the Nonconformist ministry was challenged by the growth of the trade unions and the beginnings of the Labour party which attracted men who would probably have become preachers to become officials or lecturers instead. Another reason was the growth of scientific doubt - Charles Darwin's 1859 tome The Origin of the Species put forth the theory that man was not a separate creation but had evolved like any other species of living thing by a process of natural selection in response to his environment and the pursuit of pleasure. This led not to a positive disbelief but to indifference to religion, which ceased to occupy a central position in men's minds.
The 18th century had been a rough and disorderly age, with mob violence, violent crimes, highwaymen, smugglers and the new temptations to disorder brought about by the Industrial Revolution. Clearly something had to be done. In 1829 the Metropolitan Police Force, organised by Sir Robert Peel, was established to keep the order in London. The force, under a Commissioner of the Police with headquarters at Scotland Yard, was essentially a civilian one: its members were armed only with wooden truncheons and at first wore top-hats and blue frock-coats. The "Peelers" or "Bobbies" were greeted largely with derision by Londoners, but they did become accepted fairly quickly.
Their primary purpose was to prevent crime, and some London criminals left their haunting grounds of London for the larger provincial towns, which in turn established their own forces on the Metropolitan model. The pattern followed through to the small villages and countryside. To secure co-operation between the spreading networks and establish further forces, Parliament passed an act in 1856 to co-ordinate the work of the various forces and gave the Home Secretary the power to inspect them. In the counties, under the Police Act of 1890, the police became the combined responsibility of the local authorities - the County Councils - and the Justice of the Peace, while in London; the Metropolitan Police at Scotland Yard remained under the Commissioner appointed by the Home Office. At the turn of the century, the British police force established a reputation for humane and kindly efficiency. Their mere existence undoubtedly did a lot to prevent crime, and they built up what was on the whole a highly effective system of investigation and arrest. Crimes like these were committed; animal cruelty, baby farming, beggars and vagrants, blackmail and extortion, burglary, con-men and counterfeit, guns, poisoning, pornography and indecency, prostitution, statistics, suicide, terrorism, thieves, violence, murders and assaults.
The status of Women in the Victorian Era is often seen as an illustration of the striking discrepancy between England's national power and wealth and what many, then and now, consider its appalling social conditions. During the Era symbolized by the reign of British , difficulties escalated for women because of the vision of the "ideal women" shared by most in the society. The legal rights of married women were similar to those of children. They could not vote or sue or even own property. Also, they were seen as pure and clean. Because of this view, their bodies were seen as temples, which should not be adorned with nor should it be used for such pleasurable things as sex. The role of women was to have and tend to the . They could not hold a job unless it was that of a nor were they allowed to have their own checking accounts or savings accounts. In the end, they were to be treated as saints, but saints that had no legal rights.
In Conan Doyle's early rough plot outlines, he intended that the role of Watson would be filled by two junior detectives known as Sandifer and Phillip; these characters were merged into "Watson." In turn, the introduction of Dr. Watson in the Holmes novels proved a precursor to other, similar characters. Many of the great fictional detectives have their Watson: 's , for example, is accompanied by Captain Arthur Hastings.
In the words of William L. De Andrea - Watson also serves the important function of catalyst for Holmes's mental processes. From the writer's point of view, Conan Doyle knew the importance of having someone to whom the detective can make enigmatic remarks, a consciousness that's privy to facts in the case without being in on the conclusions drawn from them until the proper time. Any character who performs these functions in a mystery story has come to be known as a "Watson."
In , English crime writer and critic stated as one of his rules for fledgling writers of detective fiction as that - The stupid friend of the detective, the Watson, must not conceal from the reader any thoughts which pass through his mind; his intelligence must be slightly, but very slightly, below that of the average reader."
Sherlock Holmes described himself as a "consulting detective," an brought into cases too difficult for other (typically official) ; we are told that he can often solve a problem without leaving his home. Naturally, this aspect is minimized in the stories, which tend to focus on the more interesting cases that require actual . He specializes in solving unusual cases using his extraordinary powers of observation and logical reasoning, and frequently demonstrates these abilities to new clients by making on-the-spot deductions about their personalities and recent activities. This simple strategy rarely fails to impress and build confidence in his services. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle credited the conception of Holmes to his teacher at the of , the gifted and forensic detective, ( being a relatively new field at the time). However, some year’s later Bell wrote to Conan Doyle, "You are yourself Sherlock Holmes and well you know it". Holmes was named after , whom Conan Doyle admired, and an English named Sherlock — however, some early notes give his name as Sherrinford Holmes and Shelling Ford. However, the source of the name "Sherlock" may have been a family connection. Doyle's grandmother was named Jane Sherlock.
