Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of the 1902 novel The Hound of the Baskervilles and dozens of other stories featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes, hoped to be remembered chiefly for his historical novels. Although he completed many such works, including The White Company (1891), he became world-famous instead as the creator of Holmes, the character still most closely associated with his name. A student researching popular fiction asserts that even though Doyle grew weary of the character, he ultimately yielded to readers’ desire for more Holmes stories.
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mediumWhich statement, if true, would best illustrate the student’s claim in the underlined text?
A
Doyle had Holmes plunge to his apparent death in an 1893 story in order to free himself to write other kinds of fiction.
B
Doyle based Holmes’s powers of deduction partly on those of Joseph Bell, a physician who had taught him at the University of Edinburgh.
C
Doyle regarded The White Company as one of his finest achievements, even though it is far less widely read today than his Holmes stories.
D
After killing off Holmes in 1893 to focus on other writing, Doyle revived the detective a decade later in response to persistent appeals from readers.