... 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 ...

... the whole length of the gorge, which is well over a mile. Meiringen has also the Reichenbach Falls, over which, as every Conan Doyle admirer knows, Sherlock Holmes fell to his death, only to be revived later when the author's clamorous public would not ...

... enterprising publisher Robert Laffont, who specialises in translating English-language books, has just issued a stout volume of Conan Doyle's master-work con taining some of the most famous of Holmes's adventures, and he promises to publish the complete series ...