Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was born #OTD, 22 May, at 11 Picardy Place, Edinburgh – a 🎂 🧵
On BBC Sounds: Bridget Kendall explores Conan Doyle’s life & work – the doctor & literary superstar who changed Crime fiction forever
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p054419v
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Conan Doyle “scrawled lists, considering various combinations of given names and surnames, including Sherrington Hope…”
—Michael Sims investigates the creation of the Great Detective – & why today is #SherlockHolmesDay not #SherringtonHopeDay
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https://lithub.com/how-sherlock-holmes-got-his-name/
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According to Guinness World Records, Sherlock Holmes has been portrayed on screen more than any other literary character. Olivia Rutigliano ranks the 100 best, worst, & strangest screen portrayals of the great detective
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https://crimereads.com/100-sherlock-holmes-ranked/
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“Holmes’s stories […] have a surprisingly grounded view of crime, & one that arguably fits better into the hardboiled tradition of Hammett & Chandler than the cozy tradition of Christie”
—Alexis Hall on Sherlock Holmes as noir icon
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https://crimereads.com/sherlock-holmes-hardboiled-detective/
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Doyle didn’t just write Crime fiction: Alan Brown looks at Arthur Conan Doyle’s “vain, volatile, & brilliant” Scottish adventurer-scientist-explorer & dinosaur hunter Professor George Edward Challenger…
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https://reactormag.com/dinosaurs-in-the-amazon-the-lost-world-by-arthur-conan-doyle/
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In this bi-weekly series reviewing classic science fiction and fantasy books, Alan Brown looks at the front lines and frontiers of the field; books about soldiers and spacers, scientists and engineers, explorers and adventurers. Stories full of what Shakespeare used to refer to as “alarums and excursions”: battles, chases, clashes, and the stuff of excitement. […]
After THE LOST WORLD, Challenger’s other adventures include the novels THE POISON BELT and THE LAND OF MIST, & the short stories “The World Screamed” & “The Disintegration Machine”. Alan Brown digs deeper into Doyle’s science fiction
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https://reactormag.com/the-further-adventures-of-professor-challenger-by-arthur-conan-doyle/
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In this bi-weekly series reviewing classic science fiction and fantasy books, Alan Brown looks at the front lines and frontiers of the field; books about soldiers and spacers, scientists and engineers, explorers and adventurers. Stories full of what Shakespeare used to refer to as “alarums and excursions”: battles, chases, clashes, and the stuff of excitement. […]
(Conan Doyle personally preferred Professor Challenger over Sherlock Holmes – even dressing up as the Professor for a photograph of Challenger’s Amazonian expedition)
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When Doyle killed Sherlock Holmes at the Reichenbach Falls, “20,000 people cancelled their subscriptions to the Strand”. Public pressure – & a huge fee – brought Holmes back from the dead; did this fictional immortality influence Doyle’s spiritualism?
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https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v22/n13/leah-price/one-chapter-more
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In 1912, “Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the world’s most celebrated fictional detective, had turned detective himself in an actual murder case – in the process liberating a man who had spent nearly twenty years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit.”
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https://crimereads.com/arthur-conan-doyle-and-the-scottish-dreyfus-affair/
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(“think Kurosawa’s ‘Rashomon’, or Tarantino’s ‘Jackie Brown’, but set in Glasgow”
The Oscar Slater case ☝️ also features in Frank Kuppner’s 1989 novel (“of sorts”), A VERY QUIET STREET)
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https://indelibleinkblog.wordpress.com/2014/06/14/a-very-quiet-street/
In March 1927, Arthur Conan Doyle put together a list of his own top 12 Sherlock Holmes stories, sealed it in an envelope, & left it with the editor of the Strand magazine…
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https://lithub.com/the-12-best-sherlock-holmes-stories-according-to-arthur-conan-doyle/
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“The Captain of the Polestar”, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
[Being an extract from the singular journal of JOHN M’ALISTER RAY, student of medicine]
As a Dundee whaling ship becomes trapped in the Arctic, strange cries are heard in the darkness & a figure is glimpsed on the floes…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvcA7uYtv6U
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“The Captain of the Polestar” is possibly Doyle’s finest supernatural story – & owes much of its atmosphere to Doyle’s own experiences as a 20-year-old medical student, serving as ship’s surgeon on the Peterhead whaler the SS Hope
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/aug/06/arthurconandoyle-arctic
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You can download a free ebook of THE CAPTAIN OF THE POLESTAR, & Other Tales by Arthur Conan Doyle – as well as many other works by the great man – from @gutenberg_org
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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/294
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The cheese-mites asked how the cheese got there,
And warmly debated the matter;
The Orthodox said that it came from the air,
And the Heretics said from the platter…
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “A Parable”
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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46299/a-parable-56d22622a1ac9
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The cheese-mites asked how the cheese got there, And warmly debated the matter; The Orthodox said that it came from the air, And the Heretics said from the platter. They argued it long and they argued it strong, And I hear they are arguing now; But of all the choice spirits who lived in the…
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