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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

  • "which is the name Conan Doyle, which he brandishes, of course."

    NYT > Home Page 2010

  • "which is the name Conan Doyle, which he brandishes, of course."

    NYT > Home Page 2010

  • "which is the name Conan Doyle, which he brandishes, of course."

    NYT > Home Page 2010

  • 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

  • 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.

    Posthumous pop: the stars who keep on selling 2011

  • 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.

    Posthumous pop: the stars who keep on selling 2011

  • The title – and description – hardly conjures up the gripping nature of Conan Doyle's later work.

    Posthumous pop: the stars who keep on selling 2011

  • So hang on, is this simply an updated version of the Conan Doyle story?

    TV review: Sherlock; Hacks 2012

  • Ah yes, the woman, the only one who ever meant anything to Holmes, from Conan Doyle's A Scandal in Bohemia.

    TV review: Sherlock; Hacks 2012

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