https://padlet.com/fredericoabreu/olzsckb7gexb Trabalho de Ingles en-us 2018-06-05 10:30:57 UTC 2025-09-28 11:09:56 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Diskette.png fredericoabreu https://padlet.com/fredericoabreu/olzsckb7gexb/wish/265599820 Arthur Conan Doyle was a writer, journalist, physician. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on May 22, 1859. In 1890, his novel "A Study in Red" featured Detective Sherlock Holmes. Doyle would write 60 stories about Holmes. He also fought to propagate his Spiritist faith through a series of books written between 1918 and 1926. Doyle died of a heart attack in Crowborough, England, on July 7, 1930.]]> 2018-06-05 10:35:44 UTC https://padlet.com/fredericoabreu/olzsckb7gexb/wish/265599820 fredericoabreu https://padlet.com/fredericoabreu/olzsckb7gexb/wish/265601037 The prolific author also wrote four of his most popular Sherlock Holmes books during the 1890s and early 1900s: "The Sign of the Four" (1890), "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" (1892), "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes "(1894) and" The Hound of the Baskervilles, "published in 1901. In 1893, to the disdain of his readers, Doyle attempted to kill the Sherlock Holmes character, to focus on writing about spiritualism. However he reintroduced Holmes as a ghost in "The Hound of the Baskervilles" and later brought him back to "The Empty House," so that the profitable character could get Doyle to raise money to finance his missionary work. Doyle also struggled to propagate his faith through a series of books.]]> 2018-06-05 10:43:23 UTC https://padlet.com/fredericoabreu/olzsckb7gexb/wish/265601037 fredericoabreu https://padlet.com/fredericoabreu/olzsckb7gexb/wish/265602541
At the outset of the novel Doctor Watson states that he has been watching Holmes takes cocaine three times a day for many months. Watson's reluctance to oppose Holmes is finally overcome and he confronts his friend about the potential ill effects of this prolonged usage. Holmes explains that he finds the drug stimulates and clarifies his mind and that, without work to challenge his mental faculties, he becomes bored with day-to-day life.

]]> 2018-06-05 10:52:32 UTC https://padlet.com/fredericoabreu/olzsckb7gexb/wish/265602541 fredericoabreu https://padlet.com/fredericoabreu/olzsckb7gexb/wish/265603670 since Doyle created the immortal Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson, no other mystery writer has come close to eclipsing him as the standard bearer in crime fiction. A brilliant London-based "consulting detective," Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess and renowned for his skillful use of astute observation, deductive reasoning, and inference to solve.]]> 2018-06-05 10:59:37 UTC https://padlet.com/fredericoabreu/olzsckb7gexb/wish/265603670