(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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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/29/the-photo-is-the-clue-arthur-conan-doyles-love-for-his-lost-world-hero

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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/

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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” 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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