★The year 2020 marks the 90th anniversary of Conan Doyle's death.
★Apart from Sherlock Holmes, what else do you know about Arthur Conan Doyle?

Prolific author and one of the most popular narrators of his time, Arthur Conan Doyle was a remarkable man, with visions and attitudes that were far ahead of his time. In short, a Victorian citizen with his mind set on the twentieth century. His narrative covers a wide range that exceeds that of any writer of his generation, although for the vast majority of the public, his work is reduced to the creation of Sherlock Holmes, which is no small feat, since it is one of the most endearing characters of universal literature. However, many would be surprised if they were told that less than twenty percent of their efforts were devoted to the saga of their famous detective. The remaining eighty percent consists of an exuberant set of works of all kinds, from stories of fantasy, horror and science fiction, to historical novels, plays, chronicles and poetry.

Irish of descent, Scottish by birth and British by conviction, Conan Doyle was a sportsman and adventurer, and moved through fields as different as antagonistic. From literature to journalism, wrote inflammatory articles for various British newspapers, helped to extend the practice of skiing in Switzerland, made inroads into politics and embraced with fervor the spiritism after the death of his son in the Great War. He also embarked on dangerous maritime expeditions, risked his life in front of three bloody conflicts and shared experiences with the most notable names of his time, such as Harry Houdini, H. G. Wells, Bram Stoker or Oscar Wilde. He was also an advocate of impossible causes and collaborated in the resolution of some of the most notorious crimes of his time with the sole purpose of ridding an innocent prisoner of an inevitable conviction.

The purpose of this biography, richly illustrated and read as a novel, is to make a detailed journey through his life and his literary work: his early writings, his elaborate novels and stories, his controversial spiritualist treatises and his relationship of love and hate with Sherlock Holmes, a character that catapulted him to fame, but that made him more shadow than he would have liked. All this accompanied by funny anecdotes, curiosities of the time and facets of his life exposed for the first time in our language; all through a deep and pleasant immersion in the most seductive years of contemporary history.

EDUARDO CAAMAÑO was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1972, is an economist and specialist in literary creation by the Universidad Camilo José Cela. Author of the biographies of Manfred von Richthofen (the Red Baron) and Harry Houdini, Caamaño now offers his readers an exciting immersion in the life and work of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, one of the most popular writers of the 20th century, with an unpublished, complete and detailed biography.