... in a bus, or even in a bookshop, reading one of his books but so far he had never done so. Another of her favourites was Conan Doyle-- mainly, I think, because he looked so wonder ful. He was about seven feet high, wore fabulously embroidered waistcoats ...

... Sketch. Back to the Strand The phrase calls to mind that most famous of all magazine story characters Sherlock Holmes. When Conan Doyle killed Sherlock Holmes, protests poured in from all over the world impassioned, cynical, vitriolic, but none more expressive ...

... recogni tion of the talents as an author of a young man called Winston Churchill. In the early days of the Club, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Jerome K. Jerome, Henry Harland, Arthur Symons, Cut- liffe Hyne and Richard la Gal- lienne used to coVne to read their ...

... story told by his father, who sat under Professor Joseph Bell, of Edinburgh. Dr. Bell was, of course, the model from whom Conan Doyle borrowed the deductive faculties which enabled Holmes, after one glance at a new client, to reveal his occupation. age, ...

... featured Raymond Francis as Dr. Watson and Alan Wheatley as Holmes. C. A. Lejeune adapted the series for television from Conan Doyle's famous detective stories. The plot of La Belle H6lhne begins to thicken. This popular Offenbach operetta was recently ...