The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Original 1892 Collection of Short Stories

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Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born the third of ten siblings on 22 May 1859 in Edinburgh, Scotland. His father, Charles Altamont Doyle, a talented illustrator, was born in England of Irish descent, and his mother, born Mary Foley, was Irish. They were married in 1855. The prowess of Holmes is displayed in the detective deducing much about the owner of the hat and the goose simply from examining the battered hat; though, the solving of the missing stone has much more to do with legwork than deduction. Doyle was also a fervent advocate of justice and personally investigated two closed cases, which led to two men being exonerated of the crimes of which they were accused. The first case, in 1906, involved a shy half-British, half-Indian lawyer named George Edalji, who had allegedly penned threatening letters and mutilated animals in Great Wyrley. Police were set on Edalji's conviction, even though the mutilations continued after their suspect was jailed. [79] Apart from helping George Edalji, Doyle's work helped establish a way to correct other miscarriages of justice, as it was partially as a result of this case that the Court of Criminal Appeal was established in 1907. [80] Literary Notes and News". Hampshire Telegraph. 3 December 1892. p.2 . Retrieved 9 June 2015– via British Newspaper Archive. Tillyard, Robert John (1926). "The History of Spiritualism". Nature. 118 (2961): 147–149. Bibcode: 1926Natur.118..147T. doi: 10.1038/118147a0. S2CID 4122097.

Dalby, Richard (February 1995). "The Historical Fiction of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle". The Book and Magazine Collector. Diamond Publishing Group (131). In 1900, Doyle founded the Undershaw Rifle Club at his home, constructing a 100-yard range and providing shooting for local men, as the poor showing of British troops in the Boer War had led him to believe that the general population needed training in marksmanship. [52] [53] He was a champion of "miniature" rifle clubs, whose members shot small-calibre firearms on local ranges. [54] [55] These ranges were much cheaper and more accessible to working-class participants than large "fullbore" ranges, such as Bisley Camp, which were necessarily remote from population centres. Doyle went on to sit on the Rifle Clubs Committee of the National Rifle Association. [56]If you have Audible+ look for this. When I saw that Cumming was the narrator, I knew I was going to have fun. Champions of Civilian Marksmanship". American Rifleman. National Rifle Association of America. 8 October 2015. Archived from the original on 22 October 2021 . Retrieved 1 September 2022.

Doyle was a staunch supporter of compulsory vaccination and wrote several articles advocating the practice and denouncing the views of anti-vaccinators. [31] [32] last year, i carved out my own short story advent calendar as my project for december, and it was so much fun i decided to do it again this year! so, each day during the month of december, i will be reading a short story and doing the barest minimum of a review because ain't no one got time for that and i'm already so far behind in all the things. however, i will be posting story links in case anyone wants to read the stories themselves and show off how maybe someone could have time for that.Wingett, Matt (2016). Conan Doyle and the Mysterious World of Light, 1887–1920. Life Is Amazing. pp.19–32. ISBN 978-0-9572413-5-0. Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower, Charles Foley (2007). Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters. HarperPress. ISBN 978-0-00-724759-2 There was a theme of moving to the suburbs where life is better than the horrible city. A rich man's lands are broken up so 3 more houses spring up in a small development watched over by the original owner's spinster daughters & we're treated to an intimate look into all their lives. Love interests develop, financial troubles, stout parental support, & more. Quite exciting & even moving at times.

Piltdown Man: Britain's Greatest Hoax". BBC. 17 February 2011. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014 . Retrieved 5 October 2014. Kindled for free. This is basically a romance. Nothing happens at all, which is fine, but not really what I expect from an Arthur Conan Doyle novel. The central theme of the book is a clash between a Suffragette main character and the conservative families that move in around her. Of course, given the time period that was never really going to work out, and to be fair the characters all part as friends, but I did have some higher hopes! I really felt like Arthur Conan Doyle might be able to be a little bit feminist and progressive. Sadly it doesn't work out quite that way. Three quotes:The Edwardians: Conan Doyle". BBC Genome: Radio Times. BBC. 12 December 1972 . Retrieved 10 November 2020. Murphy, Pip (2022). Of Mountains and Motors. Roberta Tedeschi, ill. Leicester: Sweet Cherry Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78226-815-4. OCLC 1295111029.

Jon Lellenberg; Daniel Stashower; Charles Foley, eds. (2008). Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00-724760-8. A Cat of Heroic Heart ( By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Carole Nelson Douglas, E. Nesbit, Jamie Ferguson, Lisa Silverthorne, Stefon Mears, Dean Wesley Smith, Liz Pierce) A Cat of Artistic Sensibilities (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch,Henry Slesar,Joan Aiken,Annie Reed,Stefon Mears,Dean Wesley Smith,Mary Turzillo) Doyle made his most ambitious foray into architecture in March 1912, while he was staying at the Lyndhurst Grand Hotel: He sketched the original designs for a third-storey extension and for an alteration of the front facade of the building. [121] Work began later that year, and when it was finished, the building was a nearly exact manifestation of the plans Doyle had sketched. Superficial alterations have been subsequently made, but the essential structure is still clearly Doyle's. [122] Saunders, Emma (6 June 2011). "First Conan Doyle novel to be published". BBC. Archived from the original on 7 June 2011.You see this book is large and expensively brought out; moreover it is issued by a publisher who caters for the million. Hence it is clear that a very large sale is anticipated. Why? Because the book is supposed to contain a popular element, and that popular element is myself. Now, it follows that Dr. Doyle must have heard of me, through Watson or the police; that he saw I should suit his game (which was money); and having invented spurious stories about me that he hit upon a publisher similarly unscrupulous. [606-607] In 1867, the family came together again and lived in squalid tenement flats at 3 Sciennes Place. [9] Doyle's father died in 1893, in the Crichton Royal, Dumfries, after many years of psychiatric illness. [10] [11] Beginning at an early age, throughout his life Doyle wrote letters to his mother, and many of them were preserved. [12] Swinton, A. A. Campbell (1926). "Science and Psychical Research". Nature. 118 (2965): 299–300. Bibcode: 1926Natur.118..299S. doi: 10.1038/118299a0. S2CID 4124050. A Cat of Fantastic Whims ( By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, E. Nesbit, Jamie Ferguson, Annie Reed, Lisa Silverthorne, Dean Wesley Smith, Geoffrey A. Landis, Liz Pierce) Verbatim Report of a Public Debate on 'The Truth of Spiritualism' between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Joseph McCabe