Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Arthur Conan Doyle NPG Ax39223

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Walter Stoneman, for James Russell & Sons

The creator of Sherlock Holmes, one of literature's best-known detectives, Doyle began his career as an eye doctor. His first Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet, was published in 1887. The stories were so successful that Doyle gave up his medical practice in 1891 to write. By 1893, he had so tired of his famous detective that he killed him off in the Final Problem. However, due to popular demand he was revived a decade later; the last story was in 1927. Doyle dedicated himself... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.