The Man Who Murdered Sherlock Holmes

With a spate of major motion pictures released or pending release on the subject, 2010 sees the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) the author who created Sherlock Holmes. Yet the life of this mould-breaking author, creator of the first soap opera, and the world's greatest detective was at times as dark and as mysterious as the man he created.