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Arthur Conan Doyle

NOUN
  1. British author who created Sherlock Holmes (1859-1930)

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  • Created by novelist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Holmes was an investigative genius who could routinely assess seemingly random clues and solve the mystery.
  • The clues aren't obvious—very few will be decked in deerstalker hats or carrying a pipe, and they most pointedly do not say, "Elementary, my dear Watson," a phrase their hero never once uttered in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's works. The Case of the Sherlock Convention
  • Just as much of today's horror fiction is vampire-driven, one major branch of modern fantasy -- in novels, "cosplay" (costume play), gaming and comics -- is obsessed with an alternate 19th century, one in which the inventions and mad scientists of Jules Verne, the tweedy science fiction of H.G. Wells and the gaslight romances of Arthur Conan Doyle have been mixed and remixed. "The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack," steampunk by Mark Hodder
  • I keep wanting to say Sir Arthur Conan Doyle now, thanks to one of the guys in AF, who kept referring to him as such ... but his name was actually Daniel Frances Doyle. Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: Attack Formation
  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who was not present, pleaded guilty, through his solicitor, to driving a motorcar at a speed of 26 miles an hour on the Cheriton Road.
  • Harry Houdini was such a great escapologist that even his friends, such as Arthur Conan Doyle, believed he must have had supernatural help.
  • Its title belying an emphasis on writers, "A Cabinet of Drawings" includes odd, amateur pieces-by Frieda and D. H. Lawrence, Arthur Conan Doyle, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Artforum.com
  • Created by novelist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Holmes was an investigative genius who could routinely assess seemingly random clues and solve the mystery.
  • Realism got the better of histrionic melodrama in Waterloo, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's rather stiff one-act character sketch.
  • Mixing the mythoses (mythoi?) of Arthur Conan Doyle and H.P. Lovecraft is risky, but Lane has done it very well - lots of borderline steampunk in his Victorian settings, most of the narrative told in the first person by Watson (who inevitably develops a liking for Benny), cameo appearances from Pope Leo XIII, the San Francisco fire of 1906, and the smart missiles from Iain M. Banks 'Culture novels. October Books 10) All-Consuming Fire
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