Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle 22 May 1859 7 July 1930 was a Scottish writer and physician most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction Brigadier Gerard is the hero of a series of comic short stories by the British writer Arthur Conan Doyle The hero Etienne Gerard is a Hussar in the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars Gerards most notable attr...