It was ofcourse the stories of Sherlock Holmes that made their creator, Edinburgh-born Sir Arthur Conan Doyle famous, but Doyle was also a war correspondent, playwrite, wrote historical novels, and produced three books of poetry- Songs of Action (1898), Songs of the Road (1911) and The Guards Came Through (1919).
Doyle’s childhood home, Liberton Bank House, still stands incongruously by the Cameron Toll Shopping Centre carpark in South Edinburgh. Like his father, Doyle took a keen interest in psychics and fairies, he was also a boxer and a bowler, taking one first-class wicket -that of WG Grace- on which he wrote a poem to celebrate his achievement.