nd wrote Sherlock’s first story, A Study in Scarlet.This story was widely accepted; so now Conan Doyle decided it was time to try to write a full-length historical novel. The result was the very successful Micah Clarke. Later on in 1889, Conan Doyle had met for dinner with Oscar Wilde and J.M. Stoddart. By the end of the dinner, he received a commission to write another Sherlock Holmes adventure (The Sign of the Four), and for The Picture of Dorian Gray.As seen in the many examples listed, certain events and chance meetings in Conan Doyle’s life led him, in the first place, to become a writer, and secondly, to dictate what he wrote about. At the beginning, he was simply surrounded by a mass of talented people that he could look up to. Then, he was able to meet with the right people in order to get his name out on the streets and into the public’s eye....
