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TODAY’S CHOICE MURDER ROOMS (BBC 2 9pm): This ’ two-part film was in'spired by the real-life relationship ..

... TODAY’S CHOICE MURDER ROOMS (BBC 2 9pm): This ’ two-part film was in'spired by the real-life relationship between Arthur Conan Doyle and his tutor at Edinburgh University, pioneer and forensic pathologist Dr Joseph Bell. Set in 1878, the pair become embroiled ...

Published: Tuesday 04 January 2000
Newspaper: Scarborough Evening News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 238 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Clearing the air

... always been fascinated by parapsy chology and reincarnation: Alan was about ten years old when he wrote to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (author of History of Spiritualism as well as the Sherlock Holmes books) after getting excited about an account of one of ...

Published: Thursday 06 January 2000
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 889 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

No offence to good taste

... No offence to good taste Friday 21st January 2000 I AM not the most observant of men. If Conan Doyle had not had the example of his sharp-eyed Professor of Medicine readily to hand, he certainly would never have been stimulated to create Sherlock Holmes ...

Published: Friday 21 January 2000
Newspaper: Skegness Standard
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 334 | Page: 28 | Tags: none

RADIO REVIEW: Elegant shifts of perspective

... England. Annie Caulfield and Simon Brett wrote some episodes. Brett's story, Absence of Signs, with its reference to Arthur Conan Doyle's the dog that didn't bark in the night, was particularly good. RADIO REVIEW Magnificently moody - Fiona Shaw starred ...

Published: Thursday 03 February 2000
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 899 | Page: 20 | Tags: radio review 

Classic thriller

... Classic thriller A new adaption of the classic thriller ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ by Arthur Conan-Doyle is to be performed by the Phoenix Players at Lincoln Castle Prison on March 2,3 & 4 at 7.30 pm. Tickets are available by ringing 01522 527770 ...

Published: Wednesday 09 February 2000
Newspaper: Market Rasen Weekly Mail
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 44 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

25 FEBRUARY 2000

... 1914 Classics. photocopiable material pbk £17.95 Folens (2.2000) 184163 509 X Machin, Roger & Machin, Louise. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 28cm.64. 111 Pre 1914 Classics. photocopiable material pbk £17.95 Folens (2.2000) 1841635146 ‘ McMurdo, Alan & Wylie, Ruth ...

Published: Friday 25 February 2000
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1820 | Page: 86 | Tags: none

Linck, Tony. Napoleon's Generals of the Glory Years. 24cm.256. 35i11. £22.50 Emperor's P.(2.2000) 1883476216 ..

... 23cm.560. 111 Ifig, 1 2mus.exs. £75.00 0xf.U.P.(2.2000) 019816706 7 Stashower, Daniel. Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle. 23cm.496. 111. £18.99 A Lane (2.2000) 071399373 1 Sturgis, James & Bird, Margaret. Keeping Canada British: The Life of ...

Published: Friday 25 February 2000
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 602 | Page: 50 | Tags: none

SUPER SLEUTH ARRIVES FOR CASTLE PERFORMANCE

... SUPER SLEUTH ARRIVES FOR CASTLE PERFORMANCE ARTHUR Conan Doyle's famous Hound of the Baskervilles is baying again at Lincoln Castle this week. Lincoln-based Phoenix Players are staging a brand new adaptation of the classic Sherlock Holmes thriller in ...

Radio 4 broadcasts tumninto audiobooks

... Woolf, Balzac and James Hogg, and there will be special seasons celebrating Chaucer, George Bernard Shaw and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. ...

Published: Friday 24 March 2000
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 124 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Venues: Putting on the Ritz

... hed actress Irene Vanbrugh, who starred in two short plays by James Barrie, and the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle, who delivered a lecture on the necessity of spiritualism. The Connaught Hall was adapted as the original Connaught Theatre ...

Published: Thursday 13 April 2000
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 479 | Page: 33 | Tags: none

The Case

... name of Sherlock Holmes could mean that they have to pay a licensing fee if they publish anything featuring Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s fictional super sleuth. Andrea Plunket has managed the copyright in the Sherlock Holmes novels since 1998, after they ...

Published: Friday 14 April 2000
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 309 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

ELL OVER A century has ft K passed since Henry James S W d aret that his aim in writing

... for “Newgate novels”). London detective novels, too, are over a century old: the late-19th century brought the arrival of Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Morrison’s Martin Hewitt, and E W Hornung’s tales of Raffles, the “amateur cracksman”. The account ...

Published: Monday 01 May 2000
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 633 | Page: 38 | Tags: none