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- noun British author who created Sherlock Holmes (1859-1930)
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"which is the name Conan Doyle, which he brandishes, of course."
NYT > Home Page 2010
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"which is the name Conan Doyle, which he brandishes, of course."
NYT > Home Page 2010
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"which is the name Conan Doyle, which he brandishes, of course."
NYT > Home Page 2010
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"which is the name Conan Doyle, which he brandishes, of course."
NYT > Home Page 2010
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Dirda has written a rollicking, erudite, and terrifically beguiling little book called On Conan Doyle, which is part of Princeton University Press' "Writers on Writers" series.
News 2011
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It had gone missing in the post to the publishers, and although Conan Doyle later partially recreated it from memory, he never sent it off again.
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Fascinating to Conan Doyle scholars; less interesting to readers hoping for an exciting new novel along the lines of The Adventure of the Speckled Band.
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The title – and description – hardly conjures up the gripping nature of Conan Doyle's later work.
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So hang on, is this simply an updated version of the Conan Doyle story?
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Ah yes, the woman, the only one who ever meant anything to Holmes, from Conan Doyle's A Scandal in Bohemia.
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