title: Sherlock Holmes: The Dark Mysteries
author:  Arthur Conan Doyle 
description: <b>Arthur Conan Doyle</b> (1859-1930) studied medicine at Edinburgh University, but ultimately gave up medicine to pursue a career in writing both fiction and non-fiction. His iconic sleuths, Holmes and Watson, have entertained generations of readers.
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  THE BUTTERFLY CONSPIRACY
  
  
  A MERRIWEATHER AND ROYSTON MYSTERY
  
  
  Vivian Conroy
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND AUTHOR’S NOTE
  
  
  As always, I’m grateful to all agents, editors, and authors who share online
  about the writing and publishing process. A special thanks to my amazing
  agent, Jill Marsal, whose enthusiasm for the zoology aspects of this series
  shone through from our very first conversation about it; to my wonderful
  editor, Faith Black Ross, who made the whole process from manuscript to
  published book so smooth and easy; and to the talented crew at Crooked Lane
  Books, especially cover designer Melanie Sun for the evocative cover.
  
  
  The first seed for this series was planted when I read Sir Arthur Conan
  Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes story The Speckled Band and realized the amazing
  potential of animals and natural history for murder mysteries. Further
  inspiration came from watching Sir David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities,
  where he draws on many exciting sources—biographies, t