Winchester, England is located in the county of Hampshire. It is an incredible historic city that is full of amazing and beautiful architecture, as well as incredible scenic views. It has recently been acknowledged as being the best place to live, though even more recently it has fallen to second place and rests just behind Edinburgh, Scotland. Due to its beauty, charm and intriguing historic aspects, Winchester has also been the subject of or setting for a large body of literature. Tourists staying in one of the Winchester Hotels are likely to be captivated by the mystery crime story The Problem of Thor Bridge, which was written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and is set in the city.
Sir Conan Doyle is an extremely popular British writer who is primarily known for his famous Sherlock Holmes series. The Problem of Thor Bridge was first published in Strand Magazine in 1922. He was born in Edinburgh, and lived from May of 1859 to July of 1930. His output was prolific and he wrote in various genres including historical novels, science fiction, romance stories, plays and of course the incredible mystery crime genre. His Professor Challenger adventures are another famous legacy of this intriguing writer.
He began his adult career life in medicine and in 1882 he and a fellow classmate established a medical practice in Plymouth. This was not a harmonious partnership and Sir Conan Doyle soon ventured out to establish his own practice. This solo business was not immediately successful and he found himself with extra time on his hands while waiting for patients. It was then that he first started writing stories and in 1887 he published A Study in Scarlet, which was the world’s introduction to the character of Sherlock Holmes. Sir Conan Doyle has acknowledged that this intriguing crime detective was partially based on his former university professor Joseph Bell.
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