arthur conan doyle

     

This British physician and novelist based his Holmes character on one of his university professors

Trivia about arthur conan doyle

  • After his son Kingsley Doyle was killed in World War I, he became a devoted spiritualist
  • 1901:Baskerville Hall
  • "A Tangled Skein" was this author's original title for "A Study in Scarlet"
  • 2 years after "The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes", he published "The Maracot Deep", a tale of lost Atlanteans
  • In "A Study in Scarlet" this author called London "that great cesspool"
  • In addition to his Sherlock Holmes books, he wrote historical nonfiction like "The Great Boer War"
  • In addition to "A Study in Scarlet" & "The White Company", his stories include the spooky "The Brown Hand"
  • A Victorian-styled room at the Toronto Public Library is "Holmes" to a collection on this author
  • It's no mystery; he was knighted in 1902 for his work defending British policy in the Boer War
  • An early "ghostbuster", Houdini fell out with this detective novelist, a former friend & advocate of spiritualism

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