Arthur Conan Doyle, was such a famous writer that his works brought him into both a remarkable achievement and a lifelong frustration. While one of his masterpieces, Sherlock Holmes, became one of the most recognizable figures in literature, the man behind the detective lived a more complicated life marked by ambition, contradiction, and struggle to step out of his own creation's shadow. More than a century after his death, his name immediately evokes the image of Sherlock Ho