... and the stupid and conceited Vaquier are among the figures who appear. His list of contents is excitingly reminiscent of Conan Doyle : The Case of the Talking Mongoose,” The Case of the Diamond Syndicate,” The Case of the Illuminating Dot,” ” The Case ...

... mm 66 k Compiled by Jay Jay The late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle once look a taxi to his hotel in Paris. As he paid the driver, the latter said, Merci, Monsieur Doyle. How do you know my name asked the author. I saw in the papers that you were arriving from ...

... firm believer in fairies. Some may hold that he was pixie- led when he wrote many of his most delightful plays. Sir A. Conan Doyle maintained that he had actually photographed one, and everyone knows the camera cannot lie. In the Scottish Highlands it ...

... Weekly and Mr. John Aylett, Liberal candidate for Uxbridge, also spoke. AUTHOR'S HOUSE ENTERED A relative of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mr. A. G. Doyle. of 22, Windmill-hill, Ruislip, arrived home last Wednesday night to find his front door open Two fur coats ...

... Edwardian literature being dramatised into radio serials we never find Sherlock Holmes coming to life. Reason is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous 'tee has so far been locked away from the 8.8. C. by stringent copyright measures. Now I hear that at least a whisper ...

... present at i the Palace Court. Bournemouth, on March 20, The Poison Bell. an adaptation by Dan Sutherland of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novel. The play comes to the West End in May The cast includes Keneth Kent. Hubert Gregg. Peter Madren. Wilfrid Caithness ...

... to run a cricket team in the 'nineties to Oloucestees/sire. His star players included H. CI. Wells. Jerome H. Jerome and Conan Doyle. Barrie himself was a cunning underarm break bowler; but the team seems to have bad more literary talent than batting ability ...

... It is Half my task as a reviewer The Master of BaUantrae. well drawn, but what spoils the is trying to find something Conan Doyle. Rodney Stone slightly above the average. An andt Stanley an. awful sameness creeps over Bank and Chreptnee. I wish that ...

... King's, Sotithsea. Keneth Kent appears as Professor Challenger in The Poison Bdi, adapted from the novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Also featured arc Hubert Gregg. Wilfred Caithness, Peter Madrcn, Kathleen Gcrrard. Dorothy Primrose, and Lionel Gadsden ...

... 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 ...

... five witnesses who appeared for Mr. Parkhurst, of Old Palace-lane. Richmond, were Miss Mary Louise Conan Doyle, the daughtel of the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Mr. Philip Connard. R.A.. who was at one time the keeper of the Royal Academy. Following evidence ...

... ced Pocket Books were published recently, and consisted of such titles as The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ; Anatomy of Murder, by various writers ; Double Indemnity, by James M. Cain: OQutlaws Three, by Peter Field ; and Mink ...