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Conan Doyle

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  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
  • Of special interest to me right now are the dinosaurs of the British Wealden (of course), the intriguing tie-ins between Wealden fossil collectors, Conan Doyle's Lost World and the Piltdown fiasco, convergence between different fossorial tetrapods, manatee evolution, and British big cats (yes, really). Archive 2006-01-01
  • His passion for woo-woo may be exacerbated by the fact that he has what I call a Conan Doyle problem. James Randi Educational Foundation
  • 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
  • And I seem to remember several books with Conan Doyle as the detective though the titles elude me. Novel features pulp novelists
  • 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.
  • But in all the ways that matter, Bell effectively was Holmes, or became Holmes, through the deathless art of Conan Doyle, Bell's most famous pupil.
  • Conan Doyle's stories ran in 'The Strand' magazine.
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