内容简介：A tale of early married life, Doyle's most controversial work of fiction and one he watched over with unusual concern. The book owed a lot to the author's wife and their joint yearning for domesticity after extensive travels.The life of Arthur Conan Doyle illustrates the excitement and diversity of the Victorian age unlike that of any other single figure of the period. At different points in his life he was a surgeon on a whaling ship; a GP; an apprentice eye-surgeon; an unsuccessful parliamentary candidate （twice）; a multi-talented sportsman; one of the inventors of cross-country skiing in Switzerland; a formidable public speaker; a campaigner against miscarriages of justice; a military strategist; a writer in a range of forms; and the head of an extraordinary family. In his autobiography， he wrote: 'I have had a life which， for variety and romance， could， I think， hardly be exceeded.' He was *t wrong. But Conan Doyle was also a Victorian with a twist， a man of tensions and contradictions. He was fascinated by travel， exploration， and invention， indeed all things modern and tech*logical; yet at the same time he was also very traditional， voicing support for values such as chivalry， duty， constancy， and ho*ur. By the time of his death in July 1930 he was a celebrity， achieving worldwide fame and *toriety for his creation of the rationalist， scientific super-detective Sherlock Holmes; yet at the same time his later decades were taken up with his advocacy of the new religion of Spiritualism， in which he was a devoted believer.