Today, July 7th, is the anniversary of the death of the author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who will be forever remembered as the creator of the legendary detective, Sherlock Holmes.

Conan Doyle studied medicine in Edinburgh and modelled his great fictional character on his University professor Joseph Bell, to whom he wrote It is most certainly to you that I owe Sherlock Holmes...round the centre of deduction and inference and observation which I have heard you inculcate I have tried to build up a man.

The first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and his colleague Dr Watson was in A Study in Scarlet, first published in 1887. Richard E Grant reads this gripping unabridged story for Silksoundbooks.

In addition to his Sherlock Holmes stories, Conan Doyle also wrote other works not involving the famous sleuth. The Tales of Terror and Mystery have all the recognisable qualities that made his work so popular, the attention to gruesome detail the meticulous logic and the intricate and wittily bemusing plotting, yet they are free of the constraints put on him by Mr Holmes and Dr Watson. Bill Paterson reads Tales of Terror and Mystery available for download from silksoundbooks.com

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