Today, nearly seventy years after his death, Sir Arthur Conan ... Houdini and Conan Doyle together in 1920, but it was hardly the only thing they had in common. Both men were famous around the ...

Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 in Edinburgh into a prosperous Irish family. He trained as a doctor, gaining his degree from Edinburgh University in 1881. He worked as a surgeon on a ...