Before he went on to pen the Sherlock Holmes stories, Arthur Conan Doyle was a trained physician struggling to build a career. From his small office in southern England, Conan Doyle admired the work of scientist Robert Koch in Berlin, and eventually adapted his scientific methods into his stories: most prominently, a new detective story featuring a character named Sherlock Holmes.
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