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... will not have missed out the one worn by Brigadier Gerard of the Hussards de Conflans. Gerard was drawn from life, for Conan Doyle copied him out almost word for word from the Memoirs of Baron de Marbot. Marbot was the son of a French general and he had ...
... doubtless produced a formidably impressive figure. In a back street in Dieppe I picked up a secondhand copy of a book by Conan Doyle which I chanced never to have read. It was, I believe, the author's favourite. One or two of the stories of the Adven tures ...
... in that lonely spot. The old inn with its lurid pictures of the murder of the unknown sailor and the newly-risen home of Conan Doyle and it was a long and lonely walk to the inn from our couch in the heather. Haslemere, Shottermill and Hindhead to-day trumpet ...
... McCleary to point out the grave omission of a vital factor in the controversy no mention had been made of the name of Conan Doyle, the father of the child, the father, indeed, of that vast horde of children of the Sherlock family annals who have delighted ...
... taught other English people I Then there was the Case of the Ski-ing Novelist's Prophesy. In 1894 that burly athlete Arthur Conan Doyle had found the young sport, and he became the first Englishman to carry out a full day's tour on ski, going from Davos to ...
... our own people, who arc not very notable for logic and clarity of reasoning and for accuracy. It has become necessary for Conan Doyle's daughter to clear up a lot of misunder standings about the author and the creation, and about the author's claim to be ...
... reputation Sherlock Holmes owes to being called Sherlock Holmes. Or whether he and Watson would be where they are to-day if Conan Doyle had not changed his mind about what to call them. When the author was considering in 1886 how to name the two chief characters ...
... indeed was much more our home-brewed cup of tea. And, of course, Holmes and Watson, the abnormal and the typical Englishman. Conan Doyle combined the qualities of both in a middle-type of Englishman. Years ago, when the last dozen of the Holmes stories were ...
... were written and has been lent, with many other important exhibits, by Mr. Denis Conan Doyle, Mr. Adrian Conan Doyle, Group Officer Jean Conan Doyle and Miss Mary Conan Doyle. New Scotland Yard has given much illustrative material including The tracing of ...
... 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 ...
... 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, ...
... River spurts to form the highest waterfall in the world. This is the region which is supposed to have inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Lost World. j igpigg ANGEL FALLS, THE HIGHEST WATER FALL IN THE WORLD The falls plunge from the summit of Auyan- ...