What is the name of the author of "The Adventure of the Speckled Band"?

"The Speckled Band" is a short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born in 1859 in Edinburgh, Scotland, to Charles and Mary Doyle. Sometime in early adulthood he began using his second middle name with his last name as his surname. In 1902 King Edward VII of England knighted Conan Doyle for his service in the Boer Wars; thereafter the author was able to use...

"The Speckled Band" is a short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born in 1859 in Edinburgh, Scotland, to Charles and Mary Doyle. Sometime in early adulthood he began using his second middle name with his last name as his surname. In 1902 King Edward VII of England knighted Conan Doyle for his service in the Boer Wars; thereafter the author was able to use "Sir" as his title. 

Conan Doyle first introduced Sherlock Holmes to the reading public in 1888 in A Study in Scarlet, a book-length work. The Holmes stories are written in first-person point-of-view with Dr. Watson as the narrator. Using a first-person narrator who is not himself the detective allowed Conan Doyle to tell the mysteries without immediately giving away all the clues that the detective knows. Watson's praise of Holmes is a way for Conan Doyle to establish the credibility of the detective using indirect characterization, which is usually more interesting for readers than direct characterization.

Although Conan Doyle's enduring fame rests on his detective stories that feature Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, he aspired to what he considered more serious writing. Trained as a medical doctor, he began writing stories while in college. He considered his historical novels to be more worthy creations, but the reading public loved Sherlock Holmes. When Conan Doyle killed Sherlock Holmes in "The Final Problem," he believed he would be free to write more creative pieces. However, the public was so outraged at the death of their hero that thousands canceled their subscriptions to The Strand, the magazine that carried the stories. Eventually, Conan Doyle gave in to his fans and resurrected the detective. Holmes stories came out over a span of almost forty years, with the last one published in 1927.