He also wrote science fiction and adventure stories featuring Professor E. Challenger. Professor Challenger's ____ 3 ______ are best known as ______ 4 _____ in The Lost World. Doyle spins a yarn about an ______ 5 ____ to a volcanic plateau in the Amazon. Here the explorers discover new species of life and face many adventures and ____ 6 ____, including dinosaurs.

Challenger is a very different hero from Sherlock Holmes. While Holmes is tall and thin, Challenger is ______ 7 _____as small and misshapen, with enormous strength. Holmes is calm and rational. Challenger is prone to violence and ____8____

After the first few "Holmes" stories had appeared, Doyle found himself nationally famous.

Young Doyle was introduced to literary celebrities, including William Makepeace Thackeray, author of Vanity Fair. As a ____ 9____ , his imagination was encouraged, and literature became a constant companion.

He attended the Jesuit college Stonyhurst. There he was known for his storytelling, keeping his classmates entertained for hours with mystery/adventure stories that were ______ 10____ in suspense.

Doyle studied medicine at Edinburgh University and in 1880, he signed on as the ship's surgeon for a seven-month Arctic whaling expedition.

The first Holmes novel is A Study in Scarlet. Doyle wrote the novel in three weeks during March and April, 1886. Murder, a deserted house, a twisted corpse with no wounds, a phrase drawn in blood on the wall create the mystery of this novel. Holmes measures, observes, picks up a pinch of this and a pinch of that, and generally _______12______ his faithful Watson.

"Elementary, my dear Watson" is never ____13 ____ in any of the sixty tales about Holmes. Doyle killed Holmes in one story, but public demand forced Doyle to resurrect him later.

The most famous of the "Holmes" novels, The Hound of the Baskervilles, was written after Doyle went on a golfing holiday and heard the legend of a ghostly hound that haunted the moors. The ______14_____ of the moors is vividly ____ 15 ____