Although his fictional crime stories revolutionized the detective genre, he also wrote a great deal about spiritualism. ... After a few of his short stories were published in famous magazines, he began to seriously devote himself to writing (Carr 12). ... Soon, he began writing The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes as a monthly series in the Strand Magazine. ... Writing in first person makes the story feel even more life-like. Though Sherlock Holmes was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's greatest accomplishment, he wanted to write about other genres especially spiritualism. ...

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"The lamb to the slaughter" was written in 1952 by Roald Dahl most famous for writing children's stories although he did write adult material such as the book "The lamb to the slaughter featured in "The tales of the unexpected". ... As the times changed so did literature, this was a result of people altering the way they spoke which in turn transferred into writing. ... Although detective stories of today can be extremely different to Sherlock Holmes, Connan Doyle's stories were important as they set the conventions for the detective story genre. ...

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