Refine Search

Date

2000 - 2024
163 2000-2009

Countries

Scotland

Regions

Lothian, Scotland

Access Type

163

Type

86
72
5

Public Tags

No tags available

KATRINA DIXON Elementary errors in the search for the real Conan Doyle

... KATRINA DIXON Elementary errors in the search for the real Conan Doyle J | 0 doubt you are right, my dear Watson.” @ W lam glad you agree with me, Holmes.” ““Oxford Companions by their traditions assert an intellectual authority you find lacking in the ...

Published: Saturday 04 March 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 853 | Page: 49 | Tags: none

S 2 TUESDAY | Y] | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Murder suspect

... S 2 TUESDAY | Y] | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Murder suspect What was that noise? It's enough to make the blood freeze, Holmes. That, Watson, was the fearful Hound of the Baskervilles. Yet again, the brute has reared its ugly head, prompting us to investigate ...

Published: Tuesday 12 September 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 559 | Page: 43 | Tags: none

woormewest Nt 3 bad tale —if you can forget about the real Conan Doyle

... woormewest Nt 3 bad tale —if you can forget about the real Conan Doyle HERLOCK Holmes was Scottish. None of Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories about him are set in Scot- But the most obvious model was the surgeon Joseph Bell, who chose Conan Doyt to be his ...

Published: Monday 18 June 2001
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 184 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

confronted by evidence of the supernatural - Arthur Conan Doyle after all was a staunch believer in ..

... confronted by evidence of the supernatural - Arthur Conan Doyle after all was a staunch believer in spiritualism and the ability to contact the dead. Sir Walter Scott, James Hogg, John Buchan and Robert Louis Stevenson were all fascinated by the paranormal ...

Published: Sunday 30 June 2002
Newspaper: Scotland on Sunday
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 219 | Page: 64 | Tags: none

Romantic sleuth: Conan Doyle, left, campaigned to have the conviction of Oscar Slater, centre left, quashed for ..

... Romantic sleuth: Conan Doyle, left, campaigned to have the conviction of Oscar Slater, centre left, quashed for the mu “Conan Doyle tried to ap, Holmes’ methods but he dicr apé)ly his intelligence, so didn't work,” said Whittin ton-Egan. “He was a little ...

Published: Sunday 23 July 2000
Newspaper: Scotland on Sunday
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1573 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Sleuth talk: lan Richardson as Joseph Bell, the Edinburgh academic who inspired Conan Doyle to create Sherlock ..

... Sleuth talk: lan Richardson as Joseph Bell, the Edinburgh academic who inspired Conan Doyle to create Sherlock Holmes. Neil Hanna on dischtx}e. the distinctive red Liberton mud on- the soles and the equine hairs on his jacket sleeves, grey and white. ...

Published: Monday 03 January 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 690 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

TELEVISION WALKING WITH CONAN DOYLE When an all-star adaptation of sci-fi classic ‘The Lost World’ starts ..

... reason why The Lost World s>~ book s that Conan Doyle” put the characters first afterwards. So the book sustained, not by us wo dinosaur we will see next, hell the characters will say says Edinburgh-based Conan Doyle biographer, Edwards. Increating hisid ...

Published: Monday 24 December 2001
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 756 | Page: 38 | Tags: none

A Punch cartoon (top) shows Conan Doyle shackied to his famous creation, who turns up in all kinds of guises, ..

... A Punch cartoon (top) shows Conan Doyle shackied to his famous creation, who turns up in all kinds of guises, from a snooping Snoopy to a cartoon hero the country’s most famous proselytisers for the cause of spiritualism for a decade, but when he opened ...

Published: Wednesday 28 June 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 231 | Page: 47 | Tags: none

You may very well think he’s the best actor not to get a knighthood, but he couldn’t possibly comment [an ..

... he’s the best actor not to get a knighthood, but he couldn’t possibly comment [an Richardson talks to Aidan Smith about Conan Doyle, French fascists and Shakespearean sheep HE first [ see of the last, great unknighted thespian, lan Richardson, is his shoes ...

Published: Monday 03 January 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 862 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

y dear Gonan Doyle

... say Conan Doyle was gullible, but he was a tremendous romantic. He didn’t have that cold scientific detachment of Holmes.” . Daniel Stashower, ‘who ‘wrote, Teller of Tales, The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle, said: “It is worth notei:g that Conan Doyle succeeded ...

Published: Sunday 23 July 2000
Newspaper: Scotland on Sunday
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 338 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Not so elementary, Author claims creator of Sherlock Holmes wrongly blamed Glasgow man for murder By Karen ..

... later this year, wilfrevea] that far from being a brilliant sleuth, Conan Doyle was a fiullible romantic who beieved an innocent man guilty of murder. It will claim that while Conan Doyle attempted to apply the principle used by his famous creation - “when ...

Published: Sunday 23 July 2000
Newspaper: Scotland on Sunday
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 126 | Page: 9 | Tags: none