Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

You might know him as the guy who wrote about Sherlock Holmes, but did you know that he was a bit of a detective himself? He helped solve two mysteries by presenting logic and evidence that the court had overlooked, and eventually freed to men who were wrongfully convicted in these cases.

He killed off Mr. Holmes in the story “The Final Problem,” but fans of the character were so distraught that he resurrected him with his best attempt at a logical explanation.

Doyle wasn’t always a fan of logic. In fact, he believed in magic, fairies, and even thought that Harry Houdini had supernatural powers as a magician. He was good friends with Houdini too, but Houdini broke off the friendship when he couldn’t convince Doyle that his acts were simply tricks.

Have you seen “Jurassic Park” or read the book by Michael Crichton? Well, Doyle came up with the idea first. He wrote the novel The Lost World, a story about people who get stuck on an island full of dangerous dinosaurs, long before Crichton’s version.