The Case of Lady Sannox

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) was a Scottish author, playwright and physician. He is mostly known for his fictional stories of adventures and investigations of Sherlock Holmes and doctor Watson, a private detective from London and his companion. Holmes stories are considered to be one of the greatest assets of the detective genre, but besides them Doyle wrote in multitude of other genres, such as science fiction, fantasy, historical novels and many more.
The Case of Lady Sannox is a short story by Arthur Conan-Doyle. It revolves around Douglas Stone, an arrogant surgeon, and Lady Sannox, a woman of astounding beauty. And Stone is in love with Sannox, despite her marriage. On his way to a rendezvous with her, a Turkish man asked him to perform an urgent operation on his wife, and Stone gets caught between his desires and duties. The Case of Lady Sannox is a proof that Conan Doyle as a writer went far beyond his iconic detective novels and there is a lot of his talent for you to discover.