Step 1 : Introduction to the question "6. Sherlock Holmes, the famous detective with a pipe and deerstalker hat, was created by which of the following authors?"
...1. Chester Gould 2. John D. MacDonald 3. Colin Dexter 4. Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Scotland in 1859. From 1876 to 1881, he studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He eventually moved to London and set up practice as an ophthalmologist. Later he turned to writing. His first Holmes mystery, "A Study in Scarlet," was published in 1887.