Vol. 1, Section 5A, The Literary Agent, Arthur Conan Doyle, General, C4229 Through C4580

Introduction
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V. The Literary Agent

It should be understood that this is primarily a Sherlock Holmes bibliography, not a Conan Doyle bibliography, which already has been admirably done by Green and Gibson. Thus it seemed entirely appropriate in the context of this work to refer to Conan Doyle as the Literary Agent and to list the publications about him under that heading. Most of the articles on the Canonical tales are written from this point of view. By assuming the role of Dr. Watson's literary agent, Conan Doyle has intentionally made the stories seem less like tales and more like factual accounts. And in so doing he has brought more pleasure into the lives of his readers, especially Sherlockians, who have tried to resolve the numerous discrepancies in Watson's writings. Sherlockians have attributed the four novels and fifty-two of the short stories to Watson, "The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier" and "The Adventure of the Lion's Mane" to Sherlock Holmes himself, and "His Last Bow" to Sherlock's elder brother Mycroft. Conan Doyle is credited with having written only "The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone" —an adaptation from his one-act play The Crown Diamond --the Mormon flashback in A Study in Scarlet, and the American portion of The Valley of Fear. This is an intriguing game for Sherlockians, who no doubt will continue to "play the game" for many years to come. Conan Doyle should at least take some comfort in knowing that Sherlockians blame Watson, not him, for these inconsistencies and lapses of memory!

At the annual dinners of The Baker Street Irregulars, Conan Doyle's name is seldom mentioned. There are toasts to Sherlock Holmes, to Dr. Watson, to Mrs. Hudson, and even to the hypothetical second wife of Dr. Watson —but never to Conan Doyle.

John Ruyle has written a clever verse in Scandals & Vandals to show how Conan Doyle became Watson's literary agent:

To young Dr. Doyle,

Who for want of a patient

Abandoned his practice

And became Watson's Agent.

Just as Irene Adler is the Woman in Holmes's eyes, Conan Doyle is the Literary Agent and Basil Rathbone is Sherlock Holmes in the eyes of most Sherlockians and the public. Even television's greatest Holmes impersonator, Jeremy Brett, has said, "He [Rathbone] walks out of the printed page at me. He is Sherlock Holmes." It is unfortunate that both Conan Doyle and Basil Rathbone came to resent Holmes because he diminished the importance of their other work. If they had only realized that, in many ways, the Master Detective would not only enhance their reputations as a writer or actor, but also that they would best be remembered because of Holmes and not for their other work, which seems far less important. Such is one of the many ironies of life. If only Conan Doyle (Watson) had written more Sherlock Holmes stories and if only Basil Rathbone had made more Sherlock Holmes films!

Conan Doyle is gaining increasing recognition for his writings in a variety of areas: historical novels, science fiction, the Boer War, real-life cases that he attempted to solve, medicine, sports, spiritualism, and even fairy photography. Alvin E. Rodin and Jack D. Key have coauthored a number of articles and books about Conan Doyle, and Christopher Roden has founded a society and journal devoted to him.

Sherlockians must take great pleasure in the fact that such a truly great man as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories and not someone of less stature. Conan Doyle was a gentleman of the highest standard. He was a man's man, a woman's man, a real man —a person we all would have wished to know. He was Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson rolled into one splendid human being. And it is to his eternal credit that he created for our lasting enjoyment the best of all possible worlds —the world of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

A. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

C4229. "A. Conan Doyle. Born 1859," The Strand Magazine, 2, No. 12 (December 1891), 606. (Portraits of Celebrities at Different Times of Their Lives)

----------, DCC, 15, No. 4 (June 1979), 1.

----------, SHG, No. 2 (August-October 1991), 26.

A brief commentary on Doyle, with photographs of him at ages 4, 14, 22, and 32.

Twis appears in the same issue of The Strand Magazine.

C4230. Adcock, A. St. John. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle," The Bookman [London], 43 (November 1912), 95-110. illus.

----------. "Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study of the Man and His Books," The Strand Magazine [New York], 45 (April 1913), 304-313.

----------. ----------, [Condensed] Gods of Modern Grub Street: Impressions of Contemporary Authors. New York: Frederic A. Stokes Co., 1923. p. 83-89

----------. ----------, ----------. Toronto: The Musson Book Co., 1923]. p. 83-90.

----------. ----------. [San Rafael, Calif.: Ted Schulz, April 1, 1981.]

Reproduced from The Strand Magazine "for Peter, who asked for it; for Ron, who will list it; and for Baker Street Irregulars everywhere." (Ted Schulz)

An excellent biographical sketch that, in The Bookman, includes twenty-nine illustrations.

C4231. Ake, Mary Weichsel. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930," Writers for Children: Critical Studies of Major Authors Since the Seventeenth Century. Jane M. Bingham, editor. New York: Charles Scribners Sons, [1988]. p. 201-207.

An excellent essay on Doyle and the Sherlock Holmes stories.

C4232. -- A3907. Arnstein, Fea. "The `Adventures' of Arthur Conan Doyle," The Armchair Detective, 3, No. 3 (April 1970), 166-169.

An interesting and informative article on his many and diverse activities.

C4233. "Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930," Something About the Author: Facts and Pictures About Authors and Illustrators of Books for Young People. Edited by Anne Comire. Detroit: Gale Research Co., [1981]. Vol. 24, p. 89-105. illus.

C4234. Ashley, Mike. "Profile: Arthur Conan Doyle," Night Cry, 2, No. 2 (Winter 1986), 90-98.

"The man who created the ultimate skeptic was a true believer."

Also contains: Lot No. 249.

C4235. "Associated Press Coverage of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Death, July 7, 1930," S&CG, No. 1 (1990) , 14-15.

"Death halts Doyle's pen. Doyle spirit sought. Message expected by family."

C4236. Ball, Donald. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930," The Practitioner, 215 (September 1975), 359-368.

"After all his achievements in so many diverse fields have been considered, it is as the creator of Sherlock Holmes that he will be chiefly remembered."

C4237. -- B1953. Barr, Robert. "A Chat with Conan Doyle," by an "Idler" Interviewer. Photographs by Messers. Fradelle and Young. The Idler, 6, No. 3 (October 1894), 340-349.

----------. Expanded with title: "A Dialogue Between Conan Doyle and Robert Barr," Recorded by Mr. Barr. McClure's Magazine, 3, No. 6 (November 1894), 503-513.

----------. ----------, [with comments] The Bookman, 36, No. 4 (December 1912), 351-353.

Doyle's views on literature, illustrated with several photographs, including, in McClure's Magazine, Wilkins' bust of Holmes, which bears a striking resemblance to Rathbone.

C4238. Barr, Robert. "A. Conan Doyle and Robert Barr: Real Conversation Between Them," Human Documents: Portraits and Biographies of Eminent Men. New York: S. S. McClure, Ltd., 1895. p. 189-199. illus.

----------. ----------, McClure's Biographies. New York: The S. S. McClure Co., 1896. p. 189-199. illus.

C4239. Bates, H. E. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The Man and His Books: A Critical Appreciation," The World's Great Books in Outline, Pt. 24 (October 1926), 2231-2235. illus.

Contents: 1. The Boy, the Man and the Author. -- 2. The Historical Romances. -- 3. The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.

Also features a photogravure and cover illustration of Doyle.

C4240. Bengtsson, Frans G., "Conan Doyle," Sydsvenska Dagbladet, [Malmö] (June 17, 1930).

----------. ----------, Areräddning för Campeadoren. Med efterskrift av Rolf Arvidsson. Utgiven i samarbete med Frans G. Bengtsson-Sällskapet i Lund. [Stockholm]: Norstedts, [1986]. p. 71-76.

C4241. Bleiler, Everett F. "Doyle at Southsea: A Friendship and Some Questions," DAST [Strängnäs, Sweden], 12, No. 4 (1979), 13-15.

Concerns Doyle's appearance in at least two comediettas by John T. Williams and his friendship with the actress, Nancy Howard, who was also interested in the occult.

C4242. -- B1954. Blöcker, Günter. "Dupins Nachfahre, Poirots Vorgänger: Zum 100. Geburtstag von Sir Arthur Conan Doyle am 22. Mai," Die Zeit [Hamburg] (May 22, 1959), 9.

"Dupin's descendant; Poirot's precedessor: to the 100th birthday of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on May 22."

C4243. Bourjaily, Philip. "Champions of Civilian Marksmanship," American Rifleman (June 1989), 36-37, 72-76.

"Rudyard Kipling and Arthur Conan Doyle both witnessed the lethal fire that Boer farmer-riflemen rained on British troops in 1899. They returned home to promote civilian marksmanship through the expansion of rifle clubs in England." (Subtitle)

C4244. -- B1955. Brasch, Walter M. "Sherlock Holmes' Creator -- Master War Chronicler," V.F.W. Magazine [Veterans of Foreign Wars], 60, No. 4 (December 1972), 26-27. illus.

Doyle is credited with being one of the 20th century's greatest military historians.

C4245. -- A3909. Brean, Herbert. "Rejecto ad Absurdum," BSJ, 14, No. 2 (June 1964), 73-76.

----------. "Are You There, Arthur--" Read by Herbert Brean. Voices from Baker Street, 2. Ferndale, Mich.: The Old Soldiers of Baker Street, 1965. Side 1, band 4.

During an imaginary phone conversation with the literary agent, an American magazine editor rejects A Study in Scarlet and recommends that the doctor try "the Beeton people in London."

C4246. -- B1956. Brent, Peter. "Conan Doyle," The Edwardians. [London]: British Broadcasting Corp., [1972]. p. 71-93. illus.

One of eight biographical essays for the BBC television series.

See also DB2046.

C4279. -- B1968. Dawson, W. J. "Dr. Conan Doyle: A Character Sketch," The Young Man: A Monthly Journal and Review [London], 8 (July 1894), 219-223. illus.

C4280. -- B1969. Dillon, Joan Hassen. "Sherlock Holmes Comes to Town," Illustrated by Jackie Whited Geyer. Pittsburgh [Metropolitan Pittsburgh Public Broadcasting], 8, No. 4 (April 1977), 50-51.

Recalls Doyle's visit to Pittsburgh on April 19, 1923, and how, at the train station, a reporter mistook a prominent Pittsburgher named Robert Garland for Doyle. A mischievous photographer witnessed the incident, and Friday's Pittsburgh Sun carried a drawing of the two "Doyles" and an account of Sir Arthur's twin.

C4281. -- B1970. "Dr. Conan Doyle," New Illustrated Magazine (May 1898), 180. (In the Public Eye)

A brief commentary on the eve of his 39th birthday, with a photograph of Doyle and his bicycle.

C4282. -- B1971. "Dr. Conan Doyle and His Stories: I. A Pen Portrait of the Author," by Archibald Cromwell. "II. An Appreciation of Dr. Doyle's Work," by Hugh S. Maclauchlan. Illustrated by H. C. Seppings-Wright and Arthur Cooke. Windsor Magazine, 4 (October 1896), 367-372.

----------, VH, 5, No. 3 (September 1971), 2-7.

C4283. Donaldson, Norman and Betty. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)," How Did They Die-- New York: St. Martin's Press, [1980]. p. 99-100. illus.

----------. ----------, ----------. New York: Greenwich House, [1983] p. 99-100.

C4284. -- A3916. Dorsenne, Jean. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle," Les Nouvelles Littéraires [Paris], 4, No. 152 (September 12, 1925), 1.

----------. "A French View of Conan Doyle," The Living Age, 327 (November 28, 1925), 567-469.

"More about Doyle than about Holmes, but nevertheless a tribute which proves that a prophet is not without honor even in his grandmother's country." (Edgar W. Smith)

C4285. -- A3917. Doyle, Adrian Conan. "Conan Doyle Was Sherlock Holmes," John O'London's Weekly, 50 (November 5, 1943), 46.

"For the mental prototype of Sherlock Holmes, we need search no further than his creator."

C4286. -- A3918. Doyle, Adrian Conan. "Secret Life of Master Detective: Doyle Himself Was Model for Super Sleuth Sherlock Holmes Says Son," The Detroit News (May 12, 1960), 8C.

----------. ----------, CPBook, 1, No. 2 (Fall 1964), 29-30.

An explanation of why the author believed there was only one "real" Sherlock Holmes, along with details of his father's personality.

C4287. -- A3919. [Doyle, Adrian Conan, ed.] Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Centenary, 1859-1959. [London: John Murray, April 1959.] 135 p.

Limited to 100 numbered copies.

Bound in red morocco, gilt, with arms of Conan Doyle.

----------. ----------. London: John Murray, [November 1959] 135 p.

----------. ----------. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., [n.d.] 135 p.

Contains a foreword by Adrian Conan Doyle; "Some Aspects of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Works and Personality," by P. Weil-Nordon; and many illustrations, appreciations, etc., from the Doyle archives.

Reviews: SHJ, 5, No. 1 (Winter 1960), (Lord Donegall); [Source unknown] (February 26, 1960), and reprinted in CPBook, 2, No. 5-6 (Summer-Fall 1965), 115.

C4288. -- A3920. Doyle, Adrian Conan. "Some Family Facts," BSJ, 12, No. 3 (September 1962), 139-141.

A description and an illustration of Doyle's coat of arms.

C4289. Doyle, Adrian Conan. The True Conan Doyle. With a preface by General Sir Hubert Gough. London: John Murray, [19451. 24 p. illus.

----------. ----------. New York: Coward-McCann, [1946]. 30 p. illus.

"A short biography of Sir Arthur by his son, with frequent and illuminating references to the subject's friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes." (Edgar W. Smith)

Reviews: Manchester Evening News (November 15, 1945) (George Orwell); News Review (November 8, 1945); Sunday Chronicle (November 4, 1945); Truth (December 28, 1945) (C. B.).

C4290. -- A3922. [Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan.] "Conan Doyle Tells the True Story of Sherlock Holmes," Tit-Bits, 39 (December 15, 1900), 287.

An interview during which Doyle is quoted at length on how he came to write the first twenty-six tales.

C4291. [Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan.] "A Dinner to Dr. Doyle," The Queen (July 4, 1896).

----------. ----------, The Critic, No. 754 (August 1, 1896), 78-79.

Speech given by Doyle at the Authors Club in which he discusses his literary life, including the Sherlock Holmes stories: "I have been much blamed for doing that gentleman to death, but I hold that it was not murder but justifiable homicide in self-defence, since, if I had not killed him, he would certainly have killed me. For a man who has no particular natural astuteness to spend his days in inventing problems and building up claims of inductive reasoning is a trying occupation. ..."

C4292. Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. "The Future of Canadian Literature," Addresses Delivered Before the Canadian Club of Montreal, Season 1914-1915.

----------. ----------, CH, 5, No. 1 (Autumn 1981), 19-23.

C4293. -- B1974. Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. "An Intimate Study of Sherlock Holmes," Detective Story Magazine, 11, No. 6 (January 15, 1918), 22-27.

----------. "Some Personalia About Sherlock Holmes," The Sherlock Holmes Scrapbook. p. 22-26.

Reprinted from The Strand Magazine, December 1917 (DA3925).

C4294. -- B1976. Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. "A Little Anthology," Chicago Tribune (October 26, 1947).

"I have wrought my simple plan / If I give one hour of joy / To the boy who's half a man / Or the man who's half a boy."

C4295. -- A3923. Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. "Memories and Adventures," The Strand Magazine, 66, No. 394 (October 1923), 323-336; 66, No. 395 (November 1923), 445-455; 66, No. 396 (December 1923), 557-566; 67, No. 397 (January 1924), 84-96; 67, No. 398 (February 1924), 121-131; 67, No. 399 (March 1924), 234-246; 67, No. 400 (April 1924), 334-344; 67, No. 401 (May 1924), 441-451; 67, No. 402 (June 1924), 563-574; 68, No. 403 (July 1924), 16-24.

----------. ----------. London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., [1924]. 408 p. illus.

----------. ----------. With illustrations. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1924. ix, 410 p.

----------. ----------. [Second edition.] London: John Murray, [1930]. 460 p. illus.

----------. ----------. [The Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.] The Crowborough Edition. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1930. Vol. 24 (xiv, 467 p.)

----------. Avventure e ricordi. Traduzione autorizzata. Milano: L. F. Cogliati de G. Martinelli, 1925. 446 p.

----------. Ma Vie Aventureuse. Traduction de Louis Labat. Paris: Albin Michel, Editeur, [1932]. 349 p. (Collection des Maîtres de la Littérature Etrangère)

----------. [Waga omoide to bôken: Conan Doyle jiden. Tr. by Ken Nobuhara. Tôkyô: Shinchô-sha, 1965.] 415 p.

----------. Souvenirs et Aventures. Préface et notes de Gilbert Sigaux. [Traduction française de Gilbert Sigaux.], Lausanne: Editions Recontre, [1968]. 484 p. (Oeuvres littéraires complètes, tome 20)

Contents: Preface. -- 1. Early Recollections. -- 2. Under the Jesuits. -- 3. Recollections of a Student. -- 4. Whaling in the Arctic Ocean. -- 5. The Voyage to West Africa. -- 6. My First Experiences in Practice. -- 7. My Start at Southsea. -- 8. My First Literary Success. -- 9. Pulling Up the Anchor. -- 10. The Great Break. -- 11. Sidelights on Sherlock Holmes. -- 12. Norwood and Switzerland. -- 13. Egypt in 1896. -- 14. On the Edge of a Storm. -- 15. An Interlude of Peace. -- 16. The Start for South Africa. -- 17. Days with the Army. -- 18. Final Experiences in South Africa. -- 19. An Appeal to World's Opinion. -- 20. My Political Adventures. -- 21. The Years Between the Wars. -- 22. The Years Between the Wars (cont'd). -- 23. Some Notable People. -- 24. Some Recollections of Sport. -- 25. To the Rocky Mountains in 1914. -- 26. The Eve of War. -- 27. A Remembrance of the Dark Years. -- 28. Experiences on the British Front. -- 29. Experiences on the Italian Front. -- 30. Experiences on the French Front. -- 31. Breaking the Hindenburg Line. -- 32. The Psychic Quest. -- Index.

In the second edition chapter 25 has been omitted, and the last chapter, retitled "Up to Date," has been rewritten.

Reviews: Bookman, 60 (December 1924), 493-494 (Louis Bromfield); Boston Transcript (September 27, 1924), 1 (E. F. Edgett); Cargoes for Crusoes (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1924), 201-202 (Grant Overton); Independent, 113 (November 15, 1924), 402; Literary Digest International Book Review (November 1924), 877 (A. B. Maurice); Nation, 119 (December 17, 1924), 682-683 (R. F. Dibble); New York Evening Post, Literary Review (October 18, 1924), 1 (M. E. Stone); New York Herald and Tribune (October 26, 1924), 4 (Llewelyn Powys); New York Times Book Review (September 28, 1924), 1, 24 (J. Donald Adams); Outlook, 138 (October 15, 1924), 256 (Edmund Lester Pearson); Saturday Review of Literature, 1 (October 18, 1924), 199-200 (Arthur W. Colton); Springfleld Republican (October 12, 1924), (Lilian Whiting); Times Literary Supplement (September 25, 1924), 591.

C4296. Doyle, Arthur Conan. Memories and Adventures. London: John Murray, [2nd ed., 1930]. 460, [4] p. ads.

Frontispiece of Doyle.

On jacket: Cheaper edition.

[ ----------. ----------. Tr. by Ken Nobuhara. Tokyo: Shincho-sha Co., 1965.] 415 p.

----------. Ucciderò Sherlock Holmes: Memorie e avventure del creatore del celebre detective. Introduzione di Luigi Brioschi. [Milano]: Rosa & Nero, [1987]. 301 p. illus.

----------. Memories & Adventures. With a new foreword by Richard Lancelyn Green. [London]: Greenhill Books, [1988]. vi, 413 p. illus.

Jacket design by Norah Lancaster.

Also published in a limited edition of 100 numbered and signed copies.

----------. ----------. Oxford University Press, [1989]. 408 p. illus. (Oxford Letters and Memoirs Series)

Additional reviews: BSJ, 39, No. 1 (March 1989), 57 (Philip A. Shreffler); BSM, No. 58 (Summer 1989), 35-36 (Christopher Roden); SHJ, 19, No. 2 (Summer 1989), 62-63 (Nicholas Utechin).

C4297. -- A3924. Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. "Mr. Sherlock Holmes to His Readers," The Strand Magazine, 73, No. 425 (March 1927), 281-284.

----------. Slightly abridged and used as the "Preface" to The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. London: John Murray, [1927]. p. 5-7.

----------. ----------, Introducing Mr. Sherlock Holmes. Edited by Edgar W. Smith. Morristown, N.J.: The Baker Street Irregulars, 1959. [unpaged]

"And so, reader, farewell to Sherlock Holmes! I thank you for your past constancy, and can but hope that some return has been made in the shape of that distraction from the worries of life and stimulating change of thought which can only be found in the fairy kingdom of romance."

C4298. -- B1977. Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. "My Favorite Novelist and His Best Book," Munsey's Magazine, 18 (January 1898), 602-606.

"Dr. Conan Doyle finds something admirable in almost every school of fiction, but names as his special favorites the romances of Sir Walter Scott, and Charles Reade's great historical novel, The Cloister and the Hearth."

C4299. -- B1978. Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. "My First Book," McClure's Magazine, 3, No. 3 (August 1894), 225-228.

----------. ----------, NS, No. 9 (November 10, 1981), 9-12. (Baker Street Incunabula)

After recalling his first "book," written at the age of six, Doyle goes on to discuss his other early writings and the joys of reading. "I do not think life has any joys to offer so complete, so soul-filling, as that which comes upon the imaginative lad whose spare time is limited, but who is able to snuggle down into a corner with his book, knowing that the next hour is all his own. And how vivid and fresh it all is! Your very heart and soul are out on the prairies and the oceans with your hero. It is you who act and suffer and enjoy."

C4300. -- B1981. Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)," The Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes. Edited by James Sutherland. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975. p. 308-310.

Doyle relates how he came to write the Sherlock Holmes stories and tells about the letters addressed to the detective.

C4301. Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)," The Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes. Edited by James Sutherland. New York: Pocket Books, [August 1976]. p. 395-397.

First published by Clarendon Press, 1975.

C4302. -- A3925. Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. "Some Personalia About Mr. Sherlock Holmes," The Strand Magazine, 54, No. 324 (December 1917), 531-535.

----------. Enlarged with title: "Sidelights on Holmes," Memories and Adventures. London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., [1924]. Chap. 11, p. 96-110.

Contents: 1. "The Speckled Band". -- 2. Barries Parody on Holmes. -- 3. Holmes on the Films. -- 4. Methods of Construction. -- 5. Problems. -- 6. Curious Letters. -- 7. Some Personal Cases. -- 8. Strange Happenings.

Sections 1-4 are not included in The Strand Magazine.

C4303. -- A3926. Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. "To an Undiscerning Critic," Some Piquant People, by Lincoln Springfield. London: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., [1924]. p. 107.

----------. ----------. [With a note by Vincent Starrett.] Ysleta: Edwin B. Hill, 1937. [4] p. (Sherlockiana)

----------. ----------, Profile by Gaslight. Edited by Edgar W. Smith. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1944. p. 23-24.

----------. ----------, BSJ, 10, No. 4 (October 1960), 211.

----------. ----------, An `Undiscerning Critic' Discerned. [San Francisco: The Beaune Press, December 1968.] p. [6].

Sir Arthur's reply, in verse, to Mr. Guiterman's satirical verse (DA3933) in which he defends himself against the charge of ingratitude for his reference in Stud to Poe's Dupin as "a very inferior fellow" and to Gaboriau's Lecoq as "a miserable bungler."

C4304. Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. "Transcript of Movietone Interview, 1929," The New York Times (May 26, 1929), IX, 4.

----------. ----------, Whodunit-- [Helen Wesson, Alexandria, Va.], No. 2 (August 1978), 1-3.

----------. ----------, [excerpt] The Listener, 100 (November 16, 1978), 646.

----------. ----------, Transcribed by Michael W. Homer. AU, 2, No. 2 (April-May 1992), 5-6.

----------. ----------, TPPP&D (May 1993), 2-3.

The filmed interview was produced by William Fox for Fox-Case Movietone in 1929 and reissued by Blackhawk Films in 1974.

C4305. -- A3927. Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. "The Truth About Sherlock Holmes," Collier's, 72, No. 26 (December 29, 1923), 9-10, 28.

Nearly everything he wrote about Holmes in Memories and Adventures has been brought together in this one article.

C4306. Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. The Unknown Conan Doyle: Letters to the Press. Edited and introduced by John Michael Gibson and Richard Lancelyn Green. London: Secker & Warburg, [1986]. 376 p.

----------. Letters to the Press. Edited and introduced by John Michael Gibson and Richard Lancelyn Green. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, [1986]. 376 p.

Reviews: BSJ, 36, No. 3 (September 1986), 182 (Peter E. Blau); BSM, No. 46 (Summer 1986), 42-44 (Jon L. Lellenberg); British Heritage, 8 (February-March 1987), 73 (A. B.); Daily Telegraph [London] (March 14, 1986) (Harold Atkins); Estates Times [London] (March 15, 1986) (Brian Hayden); Irish Independent [Dublin] (April 27, 1986) (Peter Costello); The Listener, 116 (February 27, 1986), 23-24 (Hugh Greene); SHR, 1, Nos. 3-4 (1987), 108 (Steven T. Doyle); The Sherlockian, 1, No. 1 (1986), 55-57 (Kelvin I. Jones).

C4307. -- B1982. Doyle, Charles Altamont. The Doyle Diary: The Last Great Conan Doyle Mystery. With a Holmesian investigation into the strange and curious case of Charles Altamont Doyle, by Michael Baker. New York & London: Paddington Press Ltd., [1978]. xxix, 91 p. illus.

Jacket design by Cohn Lewis.

----------. ----------. New York: Ballantine Books, [October 1979]. xxix, 91 p. illus.

A full-color sketchbook-diary by the father of Sir Arthur, and an accompanying narrative by Michael Baker. It was completed in 1889, when Charles Doyle was 57 and a patient at "Sunnyside" (Montrose Royal Lunatic Asylum, Scotland). The pictures and sketches are primarily of elves, fairies, and small creatures of the woodlands. (Charles Doyle illustrated several books, including the 1888 ed. of Stud.) Baker's research reveals that Charles was not mad but an alcoholic and epileptic. A fascinating and refreshingly original book.

Reviews: BSM, No. 16 (December 1978), 24 26 (Peter E. Blau); BSR, No. 3-4 (September-October 1978), 3; Bookseller, No. 3792 (August 26, 1978), 1828-1829 (Ruth Dunitz); Publishers Weekly, 213 (June 26, 1978), 56 (Robert Dahlin); Times Literary Supplement (September 22, 1978), 1042 (Julian Symons).

C4308. -- A3928. Doyle, Lady Conan. "Conan Doyle Was Sherlock Holmes," Pearson's Magazine, 78 (December 1934), 574-577. (Great Authors, No. 1)

"How my husband solved police mysteries in private: The conception and vivifying of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson."

C4309. Doyle, Dame Jean Conan. "Dame Jean Remembers," SHG, No. 5 (Summer 1992), 6-7, 16. illus.

Recollections of the early days of her childhood, her father, and the significance of Sherlock Holmes.

C4310. Doyle, Jean Conan. "My Father as My Father," SHJ, 14, No. 3-4 (Summer 1980), 73-74. illus.

Dame Jean recalls her childhood and teens with her father and other members of the family. An invaluable piece of history.

C4311. Doyle, Michael. "`I Know That Country, Holmes,'" ACD, 2, No. 1 (Spring 1991), 9-14.

Crowborough's resident historian and Conan Doyle enthusiast, Malcolm Payne, takes the author on a guided tour of Crowborough. With seven photographs.

C4312. Dunlop, Anna V. G. "Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)" University of Edinburgh Journal, 31, No. 1 (June 1983), 58-60.

A short biography of Doyle with an emphasis on his education, medical career, and the "diagnostic method of detection of crime" of his chief literary character.

C4313. -- B1983. "Editorial Notes," The London Mercury, 22 (August 1930), 289 292.

"It is obvious that no author can really create a character possessing and demonstrating an acuter brain than his own; but Conan Doyle certainly sometimes tempted one to the theory that he had performed that impossible feat."

C4314. [Edmonds, F.] "Great Discoverers," Punch, 131 (August 22, 1906), 141.

One of five great discoverers, Sherlock Holmes tracked down Sir A. Conan Doyle who was "pottering about in comparative literary obscurity." This was probably the renowned detective's greatest feat.

C4315. Edwards, Owen Dudley. "Conan Doyle," The Weekend Scotsman (July 12, 1980). illus.

A literary reassessment of Sir Arthur. "... (he) drew as his heritage a complex of historical checks and balances which might tilt in strange directions but which perpetually demanded that he challenge conventional truths in a manner which would galvanize the widest possible audience.

C4316. Edwards, Owen Dudley."Conan Doyle and Stonyhurst," The Stonyhurst Magazine, 42, No. 472 (Autumn 1981), 124-132; 42, No. 473 (Summer 1982), 216-224; 42, No. 474 (Autumn 1982), 320-327.

An interesting and valuable attempt to assess the place of Stonyhurst College in the making of Doyle's literary achievement. Illustrated with a painting of Sir Arthur by H.L. Gates in 1927 (No. 473, facing p. 249).

C4317. Edwards, Owen Dudley. "Conan Doyle as Historian: A Starting Point," ACD, 1, No. 2 (March 1990), 95-111.

An examination of Doyle's writings -- Sherlockian and otherwise -- from a historical perspective.

C4318. Edwards, Owen Dudley. The Quest for Sherlock Holmes: A Biographical Study of Arthur Conan Doyle. [Edinburgh]: Mainstream Publishing, [1983]. 380 p. illus.

Jacket design by James Hutcheson.

----------. ----------. Totowa, N.J.: Barnes & Noble Books, [1983]. 380 p. illus.

----------. ----------. [Harmondsworth, Middlesex]: Penguin Books, [1984]. 380 p. illus.

Includes a note for the Penguin edition.

Cover photograph of Doyle and illustration by Paget of Holmes and Watson from Silv.

Contents: Introduction. -- 1. First Impressions. -- 2. The Hero as Woman. -- 3. The Hero as Jesuit. -- 4. The Hound of Heaven. -- 5. To Feldkirch and Back. -- 6. The Resident Doctor. -- 7. Athens or Sparta. -- 8. The Long Voyage Home. -- 9. Blue Water, Black Man. -- 10. The Plymouth Brother. -- Epilogue: Two Studies in Scarlet. -- Index.

Reviews: Antiquarian Book Monthly Review, 10 (June 1983), 222-223 (D.A.N. Jones); BSJ, 33, No. 2 (June 1983), 113-114 (Peter E. Blau); BSM, No. 31 (Autumn 1982), 33-35 (Richard Lancelyn Green); BSN, 3, No. 2 (Trinity Term 1986), 3-4 (Carol Rosier); But Do Blondes Prefer Gentlemen-- by Anthony Burgess (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1986), 332-334,; City Limits [London] (August 3, 1984) (Wendy Brandmark); CLA Journal, 28 (December 1984), 238-241 (Robert F. Fleissner); Clitheroe Advertiser and Times (November 3, 1983) (J.F.); Daily Telegraph (December 9, 1982) (Harold Atkins); Economist, 286 (January 8, 1983), 87; Financial Times (December 24, 1982) (Anthony Curtis); Glasgow Herald (November 13, 1982) (Arnold Kemp); Guardian (November 25, 1982) (John Ezard); Irish Times (January 29, 1983) (Brendan Glacken); Literary Review (March 1983), 13-14 (T. J. Binyon); London Review of Books (May 5-18, 1983), 16-17 (J.I.M. Stewart); Los Angeles Times/The Book Review (January 8, 1984), 2 (Nick B. Williams); New Society, 62 (December 23-30, 1982), 528 (Douglas Johnson); ND (July 1985), 5-6 (Jerome F. O'Malley); The Observer (December 5, 1982), 19 (Anthony Burgess); Q£$, 5, No. 4 (November 1984), 52 (B. U. Bakerst); Scotsman (February 26, 1983) (David Daiches); SHJ, 16, No. 2 (Summer 1983), 55 (Nicholas Utechin); 17, No. 1 (Winter 1984), 20 (Nicholas Utechin); Spectator, 250 (January 8, 1983), 22 (H.R.F. Keating); Sunday Standard [Glasgow] (November 21, 1982) (Trevor Royle); Sunday Telegraph (December 12, 1982), 14 (Christopher Booker); Sunday Times (November 21, 1982), 45 (Julian Symons); Times Literary Supplement (December 24, 1982), 1414 (Patricia Craig).

C4319. Edwards, Ralph. "Summary of the Life of Canon's Author, Arthur Conan Doyle (He Didn't Just Write)" CH, 5, No. 2 (Winter 1981), 11-13.

C4320. -- A3929. Engholm, Kaj. "Conan Doyle," Ti Kriminelle Minutter. [København]: Spektrum, 1966. p. 9-12.

C4321. Fletcher, Henry. "Artistic Memories," SHJ, 14, No. 3-4 (Summer 1980), 87.

An expression of gratitude to Sir Arthur for taking the time to examine and purchase watercolor paintings by the author some sixty years ago.

C4322. -- B1984. Fradkin, Lloyd Alan. "Elementary, Dr. Stark-Munro": Being Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as Reflected Upon in His Writings. Edited and commented upon by Lloyd Alan Fradkin. [Sun Valley, Calif.: Privately Produced, n.d.] 194 p.

Contents: Introduction. -- Dr. Watson's Literary Agent. -- Three Friends of a Good Doctor: A Short Look at the Honorable Sherlock Holmes of Number 221-B, Upper Baker Street; -- Professor George Edward Challenger, Scientist Extraordinary; -- The Gallant Frenchman of Napoleon's Hussars. -- A Last Look at Spiritualism as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Saw It. -- Appendices. -- Index.

C4323. -- B1985. Garland, Hamlin. "Roadside Meetings of a Literary Nomad," The Bookman, 71 (June 1930), 311-312.

Relates Garland's meetings with Doyle -- both shared a common interest in athletics.

C4324. [Gellerstedt, Robert S., Jr., comp.] "Traces of Doyle," IN, No. 7 (1990), 1, 3-4.

A slightly edited compendium of the Doyle references in The Oxford Illustrated Literary Guide to Great Britain & Ireland, 1981.

C4325. Godfrey, Robert. "Undershaw," SHG, No. 7 (Summer 1993), 12-13. illus.

"The house Doyle lovingly built for his ailing wife." (Subtitle)

C4326. Goldfarb, Cliff. "That Was `Toast,' Not `Roast,'" CH, 13, No. 1 (Autumn 1989), 14.

A "tested and tasty recipe for Toast Conan Doyle."

C4327. -- A3930. Goldwyn, Robert M. "The Birth of Sherlock Holmes," Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin, 31, No. 1 (October 1956), 21-23.

A paper presented as the subject of the author's Boylston Medical Society dissertation in March 1956.

The early life of Doyle, with emphasis on his medical career, Dr. Joseph Bell, and the Canonical tales.

C4328. -- A3931. Gordon, Harold. "Some Recollections of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle," [With an Introductory Note and Diverse Surmises by William R. Smith]. BSJ, 12, No. 3 (September 1962), 137-138.

Two brief anecdotes demonstrating Doyle's "knack for quick and accurate deductions similar to those of his mentor, Dr. Joseph Bell."

C4329. -- B1986. "The Gossip Shop," The Bookman, 55, No. 4 (June 1922), 439.

An interview with Sir Arthur at the Ambassador Hotel, including a silhouette of him.

C4330. -- B1987. Grampa, Fernando. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Relatore Prof. Hazon. Sessione autunnale 1955-1956. 90 p. (Tesi N. 984)

Thesis -- Milano: Universita' Commerciale Luigi Bocconi.

C4331. -- B1988. Grant, J. B. "Arthur Conan Doyle: A Doctor's Vision," San Francisco Review of Books, 2, No. 8 (December 1976), 10-12; 2, No. 10 (February 1977), 27-29; 2, No. 11 (March 1977), 20-23. illus.

A literary analysis of Doyle and Holmes.

C4332. Great Lives of the Century, as reported by The New York Times. Edited by Arleen Keylin. [New York]: Times Books, [1977]. 305 p. illus.

"An Arno Press Book."

Partial contents: Conan Doyle Dead from Heart Attack. -- Laud Conan Doyle, a Pioneer Spiritualist. -- Sale of Doyle Books High. (July 8, 1930) (p. 66-67).

C4333. Green, Richard Lancelyn. Bush Villa, Southsea: The Birthplace of Sherlock Holmes. London: Christmas 1985. 1 card.

"Privately printed in 1985 (from the original photographs) for Richard Lancelyn Green, for his friends, members of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London and fellow Baker Street Irregulars of New York, to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the inception of Sherlock Holmes."

Includes a photograph of Doyle by G. West and Son of Southsea, a photograph of Doyle in front of the house where Stud and Sign were written, and a reproduction of a page from Doyle's notebook of 1885-1886.

C4334. Green, Richard Lancelyn. Charles Altamont Doyle: Illustrations for Works by His Son. London: Privately Printed, Christmas 1987. 1 card.

A commentary and illustrations by Charles Doyle for "The Mystery of Cloomber" and the first edition of Stud in July 1888. Also reproduced is the only known photograph of Arthur Conan Doyle and his father (1865).

C4335. Green, Richard Lancelyn. "Conan Doyle's Pocket Diary for 1889," ACD, 1, No. 1 (September 1989), 21-29.

Comments on the 1889 diary, which is exclusively devoted to literary matters. The two most important entries relate to Sign.

C4336. Green, Richard Lancelyn. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle," Novelists and Prose Writers. Editor, James Vinson. Associate Editor, D. L. Kirkpatrick. New York: St. Martin's Press, [1979]. p. 342-346. (Great Writers of the English Language)

----------. ----------, The Novel to 1900. Introduction by A.O.J. Cockshut. New York: St. Martin's Press, [1980]. p. 86-90. (Great Writers Student Library, 8)

The entry consists of a biography, a complete list of Doyle's published books, a selected list of published bibliographies and critical studies about Doyle, and a critical essay on his work.

C4337. -- B1989. Green, Roger Lancelyn. "Adventures in the Past: Conan Doyle, Stanley Weyman, S. R. Crockett, etc.," Tellers of Tales: Children's Books and Their Authors from 1800 to 1968. London: Kaye & Ward Ltd., [Rev. ed., 1969]. Chap. 15, p. 168-181.

The section on Doyle has been rewritten but is essentially the same as the earlier version (DB1990).

C4338. -- B1990. Green, Roger Lancelyn. "Some Lesser Story-Tellers: Conan Doyle, S. R. Crockett, Edwin Lester Arnold," Tellers of Tates. Leicester, England: Edmund Ward, 1946. Chap. 13, p. 179-185.

----------. ----------, ----------. New, enl. ed. Leicester, Eng.: Edmund Ward (Publishers) Ltd., [1953]. Chap. 12, p. 171-188.

In this book about "children's favourite authors from 1839 to the present day," six pages are devoted to the life and writings of Sir Arthur.

C4339. Greene, Graham. "The Poker-Face," The Lost Childhood and Other Essays. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1951. p. 87-88.

----------. ----------, ----------. New York: The Viking Press, 1952. p. 87-88.

A review of Conan Doyle: His Life and Art, by Hesketh Pearson (DA3956, DB2032).

C4340. Greenwood, Douglas. "It's Elemental, My Dear Holmes," Hampshire: The County Magazine (December 1983), 67. illus.

The author relates an adventure while tracking down Doyle's grave for his book, Who's Buried Where in England.

C4341. Greenwood, Douglas. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)," Who's Buried Where in England. London: Constable, [1982]. p. 184-185. illus.

A brief biography and photograph of Doyle's grave in All Saints' Churchyard, Minstead, Hampshire.

Review: PM, No. 4 (December 1990), 4-5 (Catherine Cooke).

C4342. Grella, George, and Philip B. Dematteis. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 -- 7 July 1930)," Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 18. Victorian Novelists After 1885. Edited by Ira B. Nadel and William E. Fredeman. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1983. p. 77-94. illus.

The biography includes a bibliography of books by Doyle and fourteen illustrations, one of which also appears on the endpapers.

C4343. Guinn, Stephen L. "The Man Behind the Mysteries: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)," ND (October 1991), 7-8.

A thumbnail biography of Doyle, who "remains a fixed point in a changing world."

C4344. -- A3933. Guiterman, Arthur. "To Sir Arthur Conan Doyle," The Laughing Muse. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, [1915]. p. 218-220.

----------. ----------, An `Undiscerning Critic' Discerned. [San Francisco: The Beaune Press, December 1968.] p. [4-5].

In an otherwise admiring letter in verse, the author is critical of Doyle for allowing the Master, in shameless ingratitude, to sneer at Poe's Dupin as "very inferior," and to label Gaboriau's clever Lecoq "a bungler."

C4345. -- A3934. [Guiterman, Arthur and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.] An `Undiscerning Critic' Discerned. [San Francisco: The Beaune Press, December 1968.] [8] p. (Vintage No. 4)

Limited to 222 numbered copies.

"Hand set and printed, in Baskerville type, by Shirley & Dean Dickensheet."

Contents: Introduction, by Dean W. Dickensheet. -- To Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, by Arthur Guiterman. -- To an Undiscerning Critic, by A. Conan Doyle. -- A Mercifully Short History of The Beaune Press.

C4346. Haines, Joe D., Jr. "The Mysterious Case of Sherlock Holmes's Creator," JOSMA (August 1986), 614-617. illus.

"The great man will probably never come close to the fame achieved by one of his own characters. ... For millions of readers, however, Doyle continues to live on in the character of the world's most remarkable detective, Sherlock Holmes."

C4347. -- B1991. Hall, Angus. "The Real-Life Sherlock Holmes," Look and Learn [London] (January 25, 1969), 6. illus. (They Lived Their Books, No. 10)

Cover illustration by Roger Payne of Doyle on a battlefield.

C4348. -- A3935. Hamilton, Cosmo. "A. Conan Doyle: There Is Only Change," People Worth Talking About. New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1933. Chap. 17, p. 157-164.

----------. ----------, ----------. Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, [1970]. Chap. 17, p. 157-164. (Essay Index Reprint Series)

C4349. -- B1992. Hamilton, Nancy. "Who Lured Sherlock Back to Baker Street-- Elementary, Says Sall," Texas Times [The University of Texas System] (December 1978), 16.

Larry D. Sall of The University of Texas at El Paso Library discovered that Elmer Davis answered this question in his introduction to The Later Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Peter F. Collier, not S. S. McClure, was responsible for financially inducing Doyle to bring the detective back to life in 1903.

C4350. Hammarqvist, Anders "Dr. Watsons litteräre agent," En värlad av böcker [Bokia-klubben, Sweden], Nr. 1 (September 1987), 13. illus.

C4351. Hansard, Gillian. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930," Old Books for the New Young, by Gillian Hansard, a young person. An encouragement for brighter, bolder and better reading for children and young persons. With a preface by Elizabeth Montgomery. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1932. p. 84-87.

C4352. Hardwick, Michael. "Conan Doyle Remembered," The Bookseller (July 5, 1980), 68.

----------. ----------, CPBook, 3, No. 3 (September 1980), 267.

A tribute to Sir Arthur on the 50th anniversary of his death.

C4353. -- A3937. Hardwick, Michael and Mollie. The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes. London: John Murray, 1964. 92 p. illus. Published in hardcover and paperback editions.

----------. ----------. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1964. 92 p. illus.

"The idea of this book is to show that the brilliance of Holmes is the reflected light of his creator's many sided character and of a life lived to the full. It has been asserted that if Music could have composed itself, the result would have been Bach. Is it too fanciful of us to suggest that if Sherlock Holmes could have written himself, the result might have been Arthur Conan Doyle--" (Foreword)

Review: SHJ, 6, No. 4 (Spring 1964), 128 (Lord Donegall).

C4354. Harris, Kenneth. "Sherlock's Greatest Enemy," The Observer [London] (December 6, 1987), 69, 71. illus.

Reprinted from A Sherlock Holmes Album, by Kenneth Harris. With a photograph of Sir Arthur and his second wife and children, bound for the U.S. in 1923.

C4355. -- B1993. Harrison, Michael. "Windlesham: Last Home of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle," BSM, No. 14 (June 1978), 21-26, inside back cover. illus. (The Sherlockian Baedeker, 7)

An account of Harrison and Dame Jean Conan Doyle's visit to Windlesham, Sir Arthur's home from 1907 until his death in 1930. Windlesham is now a "residential hotel" and is called "Windlesham Manor."

C4356. -- A3938. Hatch, Robert. "The Real Conan Doyle," The Idler [Oxford], 1, No. 2 (February 1967), 3.

A biographical sketch, illustrated with a Sidney Paget drawing.

C4357. Heath, Irene. "The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes," Woman's Weekly [London] (December 20, 1980), 36-3 .

A nicely illustrated article about Sir Arthur, the man behind the famed detective.

C4358. -- A3939. Helling, Cornelis. "Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle: Was He Dr. John H. Watson--" BSJ, 22, No. 1 (March 1972), 10-11. illus.

A sketch-map of the first printing of Prio is signed "John H. Watson," while the map itself is in the hand of Doyle, proving that the two doctors were the same person.

C4359. -- B1994. Helling, Cornelis. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle," Litterair Paspoort [Amsterdam], No. 23 (January 1949), 10-13.

Illustrated with photographs of Doyle and Rathbone.

C4360. Hempstone, Smith. "Case of the Untold Stories of Sherlock Holmes," St. Louis Globe-Democrat (July 11, 1980), 12A.

Another tribute to Doyle.

C4361. -- A3940. Henriksen, A. D. "Arthur Conan Doyle: 100 ar," Sherlockiana, 4, No. 1 (1959), 2.

----------. "En engelsk Gentleman," Kronik [København] (May 22, 1959).

C4362. Hettwer, Elisabeth. "Der Mann, der Sherlock Holmes war" ["The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes"], Deutsches Ärzteblatt (May 1984), 1553-1556. illus.

"Von der Praxis an den Billardtisch, vom Boxring an die Schreibmaschine: Arthur Conan Doyle."

C4363. -- B1995. Higham, Charles. The Adventures of Conan Doyle: The Life of the Creator of Sherlock Holmes. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., [1976]. 368 p. illus.

Jacket design by Judith Kazdym Leeds.

----------. ----------. London: Hamish Hamilton, [1976]. 368 p. illus.

Jacket design by David Prout.

----------. ----------. New York: Pocket Books, [January 1978]. xiv, 352 p.

"A Kangaroo Book."

Contents: Preface. -- Acknowledgments. -- 1. Edinburgh, London, and Moriarty. -- 2. Ghosts of the Arctic. -- 3. Holmes Is Born. -- 4. Phantoms and Detections. -- 5. America, Egypt, and Falling in Love. -- 6. Typhoid in Bloemfontein. -- 7. Holmes Is Reborn. -- 8. Conan Doyle as Sherlock. -- 9. Submarines and Science Fiction. -- 10. Adventures in Other Worlds. -- 11. The Greatest Journey. -- Epilogue: Séances, Mystery, and Murder. -- Appendix. -- Selective Bibliography. -- Index.

Reviews: Alternative: An American Spectator, 10 (January 1977), 34-35 (William Murchison); BSM, No. 8 (December 1976), 19-20 (Peter E. Blau); No. 10 (June 1977), 9-10 (Dame Jean Conan Doyle); Booklist, 73 (February 1, 1977), 784, Books and Bookmen, 22 (February 1977), 52-54 (Cohn Wilson); Chicago Tribunal Book World (January 15, 1978) (Clarence Petersen); Choice, 13 (February 1977), 1596; Daily Athenaeum [West Virginia University] (February 10, 1978), 3 (Ray Betzner); Daily Telegraph (December 9, 1976) (Harold Atkins); Detroit Free Press (January 9, 1977), 5-C (Marcia Abramson); DCC, 13, No. 1 (December 1976), 6 (Glenn J. Shea); Georgia Review, 32 (Summer 1978), 468-470 (John Hollow); HP, 1, No. 3 (May 1977), 25 28 (Patricia Pierce); Kirkus Reviews, 44 (August 15, 1976), 940; Los Angeles Times (November 1, 1976), IV, 7 (Robert Kirsch); Maryland State Medical Journal (July 1978), 33-34 (Blaine Taylor); MB, 5, No. 1 (March 1979), 11 (David Pearson); National Review, 29 (April 29, 1977), 508 (David A. Pietrusza); New Statesman, 92 (November 26, 1976), 751-752 (John Fowles); New York Times Book Review (November 7, 1976), 6-7, 54 (Paul Theroux); NNCC, 3, No. 1 (1978), 7 (Susan Flaherty); Observer (November 28, 1976), 31 (Maurice Richardson); Playboy, 24 (January 1977), 22; Publishers Weekly, 210 (August 16, 1976), 113 (Albert H. Johnston); Salt Lake Tribune (December 26, 1976), 2-E (Susan Nixon); Saturday Evening Post, 249 (March 1977), 79; SS, 2, No. 4 (October 1976), 2, 8 (Robert A. W. Lowndes); School Library Journal, 23 (March 1977), 156 (Cynthia Johnson); SHJ, 13, No. 1 (Winter 1976), 25-26 (Anthony D. Howlett); Spectator (December 4, 1976), 25 26 (Harriet Waugh); The Times (November 27, 1976), 15 (Jean Conan Doyle); Titbits (November 25, 1976) (Tisha Browne), Virginia Quarterly Review, 53 (Spring 1977), 54; West Coast Review of Books, 3 (January 1977), 31 (David Winston York).

C4364. -- A3941. Hoehling, Mary. The Real Sherlock Holmes: Arthur Conan Doyle. New York: Julian Messner, [1965]. 191 p.

For ages 12 to 16.

"An excitingly `whole' portrait of Conan Doyle as man and writer. ... Though the use of fictional dialogue may be criticized, it is based on fact and the inferences drawn are legitimate." (Clayton E. Kilpatrick)

Reviews: Best Sellers, 25 (May 15, 1965), 102; Christian Science Monitor (May 6, 1965), 8 (P.M.D.); Horn Book, 41 (August 1965), 396 (Jane Manthorne); Library Journal, 90 (June 15, 1965), 2894 (Clayton E. Kilpatrick); New York Times Book Review (July 4, 1965), 12 (Anthony Boucher); New Yorker, 41 (December 4, 1965), 244, 246 (Emily Maxwell).

C4365. Hoffman, Margaret. "Steel True, Blade Straight," SMuse, 10, No. 1 (Fall 1991), 19-20.

The words on Doyle's grave come from a poem in Songs of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson.

C4366. Hook, Michael. "Doyle and the Detective," The Scotsman/Weekend (July 7, 1990), 1-5. illus.

"The Strange Case of Doctor Doyle. What would Sherlock Holmes have made of his maker--" (Cover)

C4367. -- A3942. How, Harry. "A Day with Dr. Conan Doyle," The Strand Magazine, 4, No. 20 (August 1892), 182-188. illus.

An interview with Sir Arthur in which he discusses his life, Holmes, and Joseph Bell ("the gentleman whose ingenious personality suggested Sherlock Holmes to his old pupil"). Includes a letter dated June 16, 1892, from Dr. Bell to Dr. Doyle.

C4368. How, Harry. "A Day with Dr. Conan Doyle," The Book-Mart, 4, No. 9 (January 1981), 204-205, 210-211. illus.

----------. ----------, NS, No. 24 (September 30, 1985), 11-15. illus. (Baker Street Incunabula)

----------. ----------, SHR, 1, No. 1 (1986), 6-7, 26-28.

C4369. -- B1996. "How Our Novelists Write Their Books," The Strand Magazine, 68 (December 1924), 643-651. illus. (A Symposium of Eminent Authors, 3)

----------, "What I Think." London: George Newnes, [1927]. p. 39-41.

One of the authors to describe his system of work is Doyle (p. 644-645). Illustrated with a reproduction of the first page of the MS of Gold.

C4370. Howlett, Anthony. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930," SHJ, 14, Nos. 3-4 (Summer 1980), 75-81. illus.

"Abridged and adapted from lectures given in 1976 at the University of California."

See also DB1816, DB1817.

C4371. Hutchinson, Mary Anne. "Arthur Conan Doyle," Critical Survey of Long Fiction: English Language Series: Authors. Edited by Frank N. Magill. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Salem Press, [1983]. Vol. 2, p. 800-813.

Contents: Principal long fiction. -- Other literary forms. -- Achievements. -- Biography. -- Analysis. -- Major publications other than long fiction. -- Bibliography.

C4372. -- A3944. "Immortal Romantic," MD Medical Newsmagazine, 3, No. 10 (October 1959), 130-134.

Contents: Beginnings. -- Student Days. The Physician. -- The Writer. -- The Soldier. -- Crusader. -- Spiritualist.

C4373. Irwin-Brown, R. Hindhead's Turn Will Come. Grayshott: Irwin-Brown Publications, 1991. 255 p. illus.

"The unauthorized history of a golf club" where Doyle was a founder and first President.

Review: BSPB, No. 11 (July 1992), 24 (Philip Weller).

C4374. Jaffe, Jacqueline A. Arthur Conan Doyle. Boston: Twayne Publishers, [1987]. 148 p. (Twayne's English Authors Series; TEAS 451)

Frontispiece and jacket portrait of Doyle by H. L. Gates.

Reviews: BSJ, 38, No. 2 (June 1988), 123 (Philip A. Shreffler); BSM, No. 53 (Spring 1988), 33-37 (Jon L. Lellenberg); P&D, No. 119 (August 1988), 2 (Philip A. Shreffler; Nicholas Utechin); SHJ, 18, No. 4 (Summer 1988), 129 (Nicholas Utechin).

C4375. James, Alwyn. "Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930: Blueprint for a Detective," Other Men's Heroes: Scots Honoured on the World's Stamps. Edinburgh: Macdonald Publishers, [1982]. p. 113-115.

A brief biography, illustrated with the Nicaragua stamp of Holmes.

C4376. Johnstone, Brenda. "`Steel True, Blade Straight' Author," Kent and Sussex Courier (July 1990). illus.

----------. ----------, BC, 9, No. 7 (October 1992), 6.

An article about Windelsham Manor where Doyle spent the last 23 years of his life and where he and Lady Jean were first buried.

C4377. Jones, Donald. "The Other Story of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle," The Toronto Star (March 22, 1986), M3; (March 29, 1986), M3. illus.

Contents: Dear Detective's Room with a Clue. -- Taking Up the Pen to Fight a War.

C4378. Karlson, Kate. "Sir Arthur Picks a Winner in the Olympics of 1908," CH, 4, No. 1 (Michaelmas 1980), 10-11.

An account of the part Doyle played in the controversial "Dorando Pietri incident" during the Olympics marathon race on July 24, 1908.

C4379. [Kawamura, Mikio. Conan Doyle. Tokyo: Koudan-sha Pub. Co., 1991.] 212 p. illus.

Text in Japanese.

A short guide to the life of Doyle.

C4380. Keating, H. R. F. "From Bandages to Riches," The News [Portsmouth] (March 21, 1980). illus.

"Almost a century ago, an impecunious Southsea doctor was scrambling for a way to earn himself some extra money. H. R. F. Keating, author of Sherlock Holmes: The Man and His World recounts the pressing circumstances which caused the young doctor to take up his pen and hit upon a character who was to fire the imagination of the world."

C4381. Keating, H. R. F. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle," Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers. 2nd ed. Editor, John M. Reilly. New York: St. Martin's Press, [1985]. p. 281-284. (Twentieth-Century Writers Series)

C4382. Kellogg, Richard L. "Arthur Conan Doyle in the North Woods," The Bark Eater, 6, No. 4 (Fall 1989), 32-33.

Doyle, on his 1894 tour in America, spent several days hunting deer in the Saranac Lake area of the Adirondack forest in New York. He enjoyed the wilderness setting and returned for a second visit to the Adirondack region in 1914.

C4383. -- A3946. Kernahan, Coulson. "Personal Memories of Sherlock Holmes," The London Quarterly and Holborn Review, 159 (October 1934), 449-460.

The author reveals that Stud was published in Beeton's Christmas Annual on the strength of his wife's recommendation. At the time she was married to G. T. Bettany, chief editor to Ward, Lock & Co. The remainder of this fine article is devoted to recollections of Doyle, "the Headland of Honesty and of Helpfulness to others."

C4384. Key, Jack D., Marc A. Shampo, and Robert A. Kyle. [Untitled], The Journal of the American Medical Association, 244, No. 20 (November 21, 1980), 2363.

A biographical sketch of Doyle, with a photograph of the commemorative stamp issued by the Republic of Federated Islands of Comores on the 50th anniversary of his death.

C4385. -- A3947. Kittle, C. Frederick. "Arthur Conan Doyle: Doctor and Writer (1859-1930)," Journal of the Kansas Medical Society, 61, No. 1 (January 1960), 13-18.

----------. Revised and enlarged with title: "Arthur Conan Doyle, Detective-Doctor," University of Minnesota Medical Bulletin, 36, No. 8 (April 1965), 278-292.

----------. Slightly changed with title: "The Case of the Versatile A. Conan Doyle," The University of Chicago Magazine, 42, No. 2-3 (September-December 1969), 8-14.

C4386. -- A3948. Klinefelter, Walter. "The Case of the Conan Doyle Crime Library," BSJ, 12, No. 1 (March 1962), 43-47.

----------. ----------. [With The Books in the Criminological Library, as catalogued by Mr. Lew D. Feldman.] La Crosse, Wis.: Sumac Press, 1968. 28 p.

Limited to 300 copies.

A refutation of Dr. Rosenbach's claim (DA3960) that Doyle used his crime library as a source of reference when writing the Sherlock Holmes stories. Except for Vall, they were all written before Doyle had such a library.

C4387. Kubikova, Anna. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle," Crusader [London] (July 1985), 3-6. (Children's Writers, 10)

C4388. -- B2000. Lachtman, Howard L. "Doyle in Dreamland: The Education of an Eminent Victorian," Los Angeles Times (October 30, 1977), 3, 17.

----------. "When Conan Doyle Came to California," The Pacific Historian, 22, No. 1 (Spring 1978), 26-37. illus.

An account of Sir Arthur's visit in May 1923.

C4389. Lachtman, Howard L. Sherlock Slept Here. Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1985. 174 p.

"A brief history of the singular adventures of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in America, with some observations upon the exploits of Mr. Sherlock Holmes," with a summary of the highlights of Doyle's four visits to the U. S., comments about the American aspects of the Canon, and a reprint of Nobl.

Reviews: BSM, No. 44 Winter 1985 50-53 Spring 1986 42-43 (John Nieminski); No. 45 (Dame Jean Conan Doyle); Library Journal, 110 (November 15, 1985), 91 (V. Louis Saylor); MSB, 9, No. 3 (March 1986), 5 (Harry R. Hyder); The Sherlockian, 1, No. 2 (1987), 48-49 (Kelvin I. Jones).

C4390. -- B2001. Lambert, Gavin. "Final Problems. 1. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle," The Dangerous Edge. [London]: Barrie & Jenkins, [ 1975]. p. 31-63.

----------. ----------, ----------. New York: Grossman Publishers, [1976]. p. 31-63.

A brilliant biographical investigation of Doyle and his writings, particularly the Sherlock Holmes stories.

C4391. Lambton, Arthur. The Salad Bowl. [London]: Hurst & Blackett, [1927]. 284 p. illus.

----------. ----------. 2nd ed. [London]: Hurst & Blackett, [1928]. 284 p. illus.

Contains a portrait of Doyle, "one of the first twelve members of `The Crimes Club,'" and a brief tribute to Holmes: "... a literary agent proclaimed the other day that there was only one character created in fiction during the past forty years that will endure." (p. 250)

C4392. -- A3949. Lamond, John. Arthur Conan Doyle: A Memoir. With an epilogue by Lady Conan Doyle. London: John Murray, [1931]. xiv, 310 p. illus.

----------. ----------. Port Washington, N. Y.: Kennikat Press, [1972]. xiv, 310 p. illus.

Partial contents: First Appearance of Sherlock Holmes (p. 25-29). -- Sherlock Holmes and The Strand Magazine (p. 43-45). -- The Adventure of Two Collaborators, by Sir James M. Barrie (p. 46-50).

"Those who are primarily interested in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as the romantic novelist, the vivid descriptive writer, the user of clean, strong prose, and above all the infinitely ingenious creator of Sherlock Holmes, will be disappointed in this book. But those who are mainly attracted to him as the indefatigable apostle of Spiritualism will find that his life has provided an admirable text for a readable and generally reasonable discourse." (Times Literary Supplement)

Review: Times Literary Supplement (October 8, 1931), 767.

C4393. -- A3950. [Lang, Andrew.] "The Novels of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle," The Quarterly Review, 200 (July 1904), Art. 8, p. 158-179.

Part of this article (p. 175-179) is devoted to "the adventures of Dr. Watson with Mr. Sherlock Holmes."

C4394. -- B2002. [Lang, Andrew.] "The Novels of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle," The Living Age, 24 (September 10, 1904), 641-654.

First published in The Quarterly Review, July 1904.

C4395. Lang, Andrew. "At the Sign of the Ship," Longman's Magazine, 43 (April 1903), 562.

"Were I a schoolmaster in possession of wealth, and about to found a library for boys, my corner-stone should be a large mass of the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The White Company, Micah Clarke, Brigadier Gerard (the best), and Sherlock Holmes."

C4396. Lasky, Irving I. "A Masonic Victorian," by Sir Knight and Dr. Irving I. Lasky. Knight Templar, 30, No. 5 (May 1984), 5-6.

Cover photograph of Doyle with caption: "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. English physician and novelist -- creator of the indomitable Sherlock Holmes."

Excerpted from Lasky's longer article entitled "A Most Benevolent Victorian."

C4397. Lasky, Irving I. "A Most Benevolent Victorian," Maryland State Medical Journal, 31, No. 12 (December 1982), 22-24.

"Doyle imbued his written character, possibly unbeknownst to himself, with parts of his own character and personality. His deep sense of justice made him take up the cudgels indefatigably on behalf of innocence wrongly accused (Edalji and Slater). At all times he was a fearless fighter on behalf of the oppressed and the victims of injustice, and the ideals and spirit of honesty, chivalry, nobility, and human loveliness running through his books could only leave a subconscious desire in the minds of the readers to be a better man or woman."

C4398. -- B2004. Leake, Chauncey D. "The Remarkable Case of the Literary Agent," VH, 7, No. 3 (September 1973), 2-5.

The story of how Holmes restored Doyle's mental health in 1896.

C4399. -- B2005. Lellenberg, Jon L. "Conan Doyle in Kansas City," KCDJ, No. 10 (December 10, 1977), 2 3.

Relates the author's discovery that Doyle visited Kansas City in May 1923 (Our Second American Adventure, p. 72), and like Holmes in 1880, may have stayed at the Coates House. (An account of Doyle's arrival appeared in The Kansas City Star, May 4; reprinted in KCDJ, No. 12 [February 18, 1978], 13.)

C4400. Lellenberg, Jon L., ed. The Quest for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Thirteen Biographers of a Life. With a foreword by Dame Jean Conan Doyle. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, [1987]. xviii, 217 p. illus.

Contents: Foreword, by Dame Jean Conan Doyle. -- Preface. -- Introduction: The Quest for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, by Jon L. Lellenberg. -- Part I. Autobiography. 1. Experience Veiled in Pseudonyms, by Ely M. Liebow. -- 2. His Final Tale of Chivalry, by Richard Lancelyn Green. -- 3. Commitment to Great Causes, by Andrew S. Malec. -- Part II. Biography. 4. A Spiritualist Crusade, by Philip A. Shreffler. -- 5. A Good-Natured Debunking, by Nicholas Utechin. -- 6. The Family's Counterattack, by James Bliss Austin. -- 7. The Ideal Storybook Hero, by Howard Lachtman. -- 8. Scholarship Translated into Popular Biography, by Donald A. Redmond. 9. Four Miniature Portraits, by Edward S. Lauterbach. -- 10. A Search for Emotional Peace, by Peter E. Blau and Jon L. Lellenberg. -- 11. A Snide Debunking, by David R. Anderson. -- 12. Victorian Philistinism Reconsidered, by Richard Lancelyn Green. -- 13. Foreshadowed by His Youth, by Christopher Redmond. -- Epilogue: The Quest Continues, by Jon L. Lellenberg.

Reviews: ACD, 1, No. 1 (September 1989), 68-70 (Christopher Roden); BSJ, 38, No. 1 (March 1988), 58 (Philip A. Shreffler); BSM, No. 53 (Spring 1988), 42-48 (Alvin E. Rodin); CH, 11, No. 3 (Spring 1988), 2 (Chris Redmond); SHJ, 18, No. 4 (Summer 1988), 125-127 (Geoffrey S. Stavert); SHR, 2, No. 3 (1990), 144-145 (Pat Ward); West Coast Review of Books, 13 (March-April 1988), 32 (Ronn Crowder).

C4401. Lewis, Peter. "Living with Mr. Holmes," The Times (December 9, 1987), 14. illus.

Dame Jean Conan Doyle recalls her father's life and work in an effort to prevent imitations of his books.

C4402. -- B2006. Liebow, Ely M. "The Literary Agent's Literary Training," BSM, No. 14 (June 1978), 10.

"Novels, stories, essays, poems -- / All helped fashion Sherlock Holmes."

C4403. Liebow, Ely M. "When a Doctor Turns to Crime," Chicago Medicine [Chicago Medical Society], 88, No. 11 (June 7, 1985), 602-603. illus.

A brief article on Doyle, Bell, and Holmes, with an illustration by Bernard Partridge (DB4566) and a photo of Doyle; also features a cover illustration of Holmes and Watson by Paget (Silv).

C4404. Louit, Robert. "Sherlock Holmes: Le Dossier de Conan Doyle," Magazine Littéraire, No. 241 (April 1987), 16-17. illus. [Paris]

----------. "Sherlock Holmes: The Case of Conan Doyle," Tr. by Mary W. Lellenberg. BSM, No. 50 (Summer 1987), 20-22.

"Sherlock Holmes celebrates his 100th birthday this year, one of those immortal heroes who survive and eclipse their own creators. Conan Doyle, however, does not deserve to fall into obscurity of that sort. In homage, therefore, we have given to Sherlock Holmes this investigation of the man who invented him."

C4405. -- B2007. Lyon, Peter. Success Story: The Life and Times of S.S. McClure. New York: Charles Scribners Sons, [19631. 433 p. illus.

This fascinating biography of an extraordinarily gifted editor and publisher (the first American publisher of the Canonical tales) includes several brief references to Doyle.

C4406. MacDonald, Brian R. A. Conan Doyle, May 22, 1859. [Fairland, Ind.]: The Gruner Press, [May 22, 1980]. [4] p.

Limited to 100 copies.

A brief introduction, followed by reprints of two biographical sketches, in commemoration of Sir Arthur's 121st birthday.

C4407. -- B2010. Maggio, Maria Rosaria. Some Aspects of Sir Arthur Conan Doyles Work. Relatore Prof. Zanco. Sessione straordinaria, 1958-1959. 73 p. (Tesi N. 1828).

Thesis -- Milano: Universita' Commerciale Luigi Bocconi.

C4408. Manley, Hazel. "An Afternoon with the Creator of Sherlock Holmes," World Leaders, [by] Hazel Manley. Boston: Richard G. Badger/The Gorham Press, [1930]. p. 10-16. illus.

An interview with Doyle in which he discusses his life and writings, especially those about Holmes. He ranks boxing as the finest individual sport. "From a national point of view, I regard the prize ring as essential. Better that our sports should be a little rough than that we should run the risk of effeminacy." Manley ends her interesting article with the observation: "There is a masculine, courageous, healthful spirit which breathes through all that Conan Doyle has written. He does not shrink from facing the darker facts of existence, but he takes them not at their surface value; nor has he any of the fussy self-important views or little eccentricities and posturings of the little literary man, who is merely literary. Sir Arthur, the man, I found to be as truly interesting as the characters of his fiction."

C4409. -- B2011. Marble, Annie Russell. "A. Conan Doyle," A Study of the Modern Novel, British and American, Since 1900. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1928. p. 52-54.

Critical comments with a biographical note and a selective bibliography.

C4410. Martin, Thomas Paul. Arthur Conan Doyle, by Tom Martin. Marshall, Minn.: Unpublished MS, October 21, 1985. 29 p.

"Marshall Senior High School, Researching and Writing, Mr. Tillmann, Period Three."

"Thesis statement: Arthur Conan Doyle's writings and characters were influenced by people whom he admired and by those who had an effect on his life."

C4411. Matsushita, Shoko. "Was Doyle a Cocaine Addict--" EQ:EQMM, No. 75 (May 1990), 156-157. illus.

Text in Japanese.

Report on a lecture about detective fiction by Michael Fanning at Southeastern Louisiana University.

C4412. -- A3953. Maurice, Arthur Bartlett. "Sherlock Holmes and His Creator," Collier's, 41, No. 21 (August 15, 1908), 11-14, 24-27.

Contents: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: His Career and Personality. -- Concerning Mr. Sherlock Holmes: Where the Detective Idea Came From. -- Concerning Conan Doyle: As a Literary Workman -- Some Impressions of His Work.

C4413. -- B2012. Maurice, Arthur Bartlett. "The Author's Full Dinner Pail," The Bookman [N.Y.], 28 (December 1908), 330-332. illus.

"Among the literary money earners of today, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle will be found, if not at the apex, at least very near it. ... It is a conservative estimate that his earnings from the character of Sherlock Holmes, and the royalties from Mr. William Gillette's play taken into consideration, have amounted to almost four hundred thousand dollars."

C4414. -- B2013. Maurice, Arthur Bartlett. "The Conclusions of Sherlock," The Bookman, 33 (March 1911), 5.

How Doyle was responsible for A. C. Fox-Davies writing The Mauleverer Murders and The Dangerfield Inheritance.

C4415. -- B2014. Maurice, Arthur Bartlett. "Coronation Honours," The Bookman, 15 (August 1902), 505.

A salute to Sir Arthur upon being knighted, suggesting that he should also become a baronet for writing Seco, a baron for Houn, a viscount for Sign, an earl for Stud, a marquess for Memoirs, and a duke for Adventures. Hear! hear!

C4416. -- B2015. Maurice, Arthur Bartlett. "Doyle's First Visit," The Bookman, 39 (July 1914), 488-490.

Comments on his trip to the U.S. in 1894; illustrated with a group picture of Robert Barr, Conan Doyle, Robert McClure, Miss Doyle, and Mrs. Conan Doyle.

C4417. -- B2016. Maurice, Arthur Bartlett. "Forebears of Sherlock Holmes," The Literary Digest, 37, No. 9 (August 29, 1908), 284-285. illus.

Reprinted in part from Collier's, August 15, 1908 (DB3953).

C4418. May, Luke S. Crime's Nemesis. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1936. xiii, 244 p.

Contains the following statement in the Introduction: "Without disparaging progressive police officers of all nations, I believe that the writings of Conan Doyle have done more than any other one thing to stimulate active interest in the scientific and analytical investigation of crime."

C4419. McCearney, James. Arthur Conan Doyle. Paris: La Table Ronde, [1988]. 368 p.

Contents: 1. Antécédents. -- 2. L'enfant de l'exil. -- 3. Le grand plongeur du nord. -- 4. Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre. -- 5. Debuts et fin d'un notable. -- 6. Sous le signe de Sherlock. -- 7. Adventures d'un nomade. -- 8. Les ténèbres. -- 9. Le prophète. -- 10. Le missionnaire. -- Épilogue. -- Index. -- Bibliographie. -- Filmographie.

Review: ACD, 1, No. 3 (September 1990), 227-229 (Bernard Sasso).

C4420. -- B2008. McClure, S. S. My Autobiography. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., [1914]. xii, 266 p. illus.

----------. ----------. Introduction by Louis Filler. New York: Frederick Ungar Pub. Co., [1963]. xiii, 266 p. illus. (American Classics)

A discussion of McClure's business transactions with Doyle appears on pages 203-205 and 217. A photograph of Doyle faces page 204. Willa Cather is credited with having written most of this "autobiography."

Review: Bookman, 39 (April 1914), 113-117.

C4421. -- B2009. McCormick, Donald. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (b. Edinburgh, 22 May 1859; d. 7 July 1930." Who's Who in Spy Fiction New York: Taplinger Pub. Co., [1977]. p. 66-67.

A biographical entry, with mention of Bruc and Scan as spy tales.

C4422. McDiarmid, E. W. The Real Sherlock Holmes. Minneapolis: The Norwegian Explorers of Minnesota/Special Collections, O. M. Wilson Library, University of Minnesota, 1984. [10] p.

Distributed at the University of Minnesota Sherlock Holmes conference; limited to 400 copies.

Discusses the holograph letter dated January 1966 that Adrian Conan Doyle wrote to William S. Baring-Gould concerning Adrian's essay on the real model for Holmes.

A copy of the letter and published essay (DA3918) are tipped in the back of McDiarmid's publication.

C4423. McGinty, Brian. "A. Conan Doyle: Not So Elementary," Illustrations by Dan Cooper. Westways [Automobile Club of Southern California, Los Angeles], 74, No. 3 (March 1982), 40-44.

An interesting article about Doyle's visit to the American West in May 1923, with a marvelous full-page illustration of Doyle as a physician, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, and spiritualist.

C4424. McLean, Teresa. "The Strange Case of the Flaming Flannels," Financial Times (March 2, 1991).

"A rapid, slightly quirky overview of Conan Doyle's sporting activities, focussing on cricket in particular, and pointing out his excellence at both cricket and football." (Catherine Cooke).

Review: PM, No. 5 (August 1991), 8-10. (Catherine Cooke)

C4425. McNabb, Janice. "Human Documents: A Magazine Tangle," CH, 9, No. 1 (Autumn 1985), 11-13; "Postscript," CH, 9, No. 3 (Spring 1986), 28-29.

A bibliographical note on the various versions of Robert Barr's interview with Doyle (DB1953).

C4426. McPherson, Mark. An Evening with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Presented by The Norwegian Explorers of Minnesota. University of St. Thomas, May 2, 1992. [March 1992.] 1 leaflet (4 p.)

With photographs of Doyle and McPherson.

"Sir Arthur Conan Doyle visited America four times. He never came to Minnesota." (Cover)

C4427. Millett, Robert W. "Arthur Conan Doyle," Critical Survey of Short Fiction: Authors. Edited by Frank N. Magill. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Salem Press, [1981]. Vol. 4, p. 1297- 1305.

Contents: Principal short fiction. -- Other literary forms. -- Influence. -- Story characteristics. -- Biography. -- Analysis. -- Bibliography.

C4428. Montgomery, Elizabeth Rider. "Famous Potboilers," The Story Behind Great Books, by Elizabeth Rider Montgomery. Illustrated by Friedebald Dzubas. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., [1946]. p. 204-209.

----------. ----------, ----------. New York: Robert M. McBride Co. [1946]. p. 204-204.

The story of how Doyle came to write the Sherlock Holmes stories.

C4429. -- B2019. Moore, David. "In Remembrance: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle," HP, 1, No. 3 (May 1977), 9-14.

A recapitulation of Sir Arthur's life on the occasion of his 118th birthday.

C4430. -- B2020. Morley, Christopher. "The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, by John Dickson Carr," The Book-of-the-Month News (March 1949).

"Sportsman, spooksman, doctor, sleuth,/ His only agony the Truth. / My collection Of Conan Doyle / Means more than shares in Standard Oil."

C4431. -- B2021. Moskowitz, Sam. "Arthur Conan Doyle," Science Fantasy, 12, No. 36 (1959), 92-104. (Studies in Science Fiction, 2)

"An article coinciding with the centenary of Doyle's birth -- May 22nd, 1859 -- and exactly 30 years after his death -- July 7th, 1930."

C4432. Mulligan, Hugh A. "Doctors Who Pushed Pens as Well as Pills," Independent-Journal [San Rafael, Calif.] (October 3, 1980), 18. illus. (Mulligan's Stew)

An article about literary physicians, including Doyle. "They discovered somewhere along the line that the pen is mightier than the pill and cuts deeper, surer than the surgical scalpel."

C4433. Murray, David Christie. "My Contemporaries in Fiction: XII. The Americans. XIII. The Young Romancers," The Canadian Magazine [Toronto], 10 (October 1897), 495-501.

----------. ----------, CH, 6, No. 1 (Autumn 1982), 20-23.

A critical study of Doyle's writings, including comments about the Canonical tales. "The Sherlock Holmes stories are far, indeed, from being Dr. Doyle's best work; but it is to them that he mainly owes his popularity. They took the imaginative side of the general reader, and their popular properties are likely to keep them before the public mind for a long time to come."

C4434. "My Dear Watson," The Pharmaceutical Journal, 255 (July 19, 1980), 55. (An Onlooker's Notebook)

A tribute to Doyle on the 50th anniversary of his death.

C4435. -- B2022. Naganuma, Kohki. [Sherlock Holmes no Onjin. (The Man Who Stands Behind Sherlock Holmes.) Tokyo: lenohikari Kyokai Shuppan, 1974.] 261 p. illus.

Jacket, cover, and endpapers illustrated by Nagao.

Text in Japanese.

Contents: -- 1. Is Doyle Really Sherlock Holmes-- -- 2. The Case of George Edalji. -- 3. The Case of Oscar Slater. -- 4. Professor Joseph Bell. -- 5. The Man Who Stands Behind the Professional Detective Sherlock Holmes.

Reviews: Niigata Nippo (November 18, 1974); SHJ, 11, No. 4 (Autumn 1974), 142 (Lord Donegall).

C4436. -- A3954. Nichols, Beverley. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, or An Ungrateful Father," Are They the Same at Home-- Being a Series of Bouquets Diffidently Distributed. New York: George H. Doran Co., [1927]. Chap. 16, p. 86-90.

After an imaginary interview with Sir Arthur, Mr. Nichols exclaims, "I would prefer to have recalled Conan Doyle as a calm agnostic, smoking a pipe and dreaming of fresh crimes in the flames of his blazing fire. ... I would rather have one story of Sherlock Holmes than a whole volume of spirit messages from the faintly ridiculous shade of Mr. W. T. Stead."

C4437. Nichols, Beverley. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, or An Ungrateful Father," Are They the Same at Home-- Being a Series of Bouquets Diffidently Distributed, by Beverley Nichols. With an introductory essay by the author. London: Jonathan Cape, [1933]. Chap. 16, p. 73-76.

"A Florin Book."

2nd impression, September 1933; 3rd impression, March 1934.

First published by George H. Doran Co., September 1927.

C4438. Nieminski, John, comp. Conan Doyle in Chicago: Press Coverage of the 1894 Lecture Tour. [Park Forest, Ill.: The Valuable Institution Press, July 1983.] 128 p. illus.

Limited to 15 numbered and signed copies.

C4439. -- A3955. Nordon, Pierre. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. l'Homme et l'Oeuvre. Paris-Bruxelles: Didier, 1964. 482 p. illus. (Coll. Etudes Anglaises, 17)

----------. ----------. [Paris]: Didier, [1964]. viii, 481 p. illus. (Etudes Anglaises, 17)

----------. Conan Doyle. Translated from the French by Frances Partridge. [London]: John Murray, [1966]. xi, 370 p. illus.

----------. ----------. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1967]. 370 p. illus.

Awarded the Prix Guizot by the Académie Française.

Reviews: BSP, No. 25 (July 1967), 4; Book Week (July 9, 1967), 4 (Alan Pryce-Jones); Christian Science Monitor (February 8, 1967), 9 (Eric Forbes-Boyd); Detroit Free Press (July 16, 1967) (Bill Rabe), and reprinted in CPBook, 3, No. 13 (Summer 1967), 243; Economist, 221 (November 12, 1966), 695; Harper's Magazine, 235 (December 1967), 112-113 (Justin Kaplan); Independent-Journal (August 26, 1967), M13, and reprinted in CPBook, 3, No. 12 (Spring 1967), 240; Library Journal, 92 (June 15, 1967), 2396 (Katherine Tappert Willis); Minneapolis Star (July 24, 1967), 11A (Theodore C. Blegen), and reprinted in CPBook, 3, No. 13 (Summer 1967), 251-252; Minneapolis Tribune (July 16, 1967) (Robert Sorensen), and reprinted in CPBook, 3, No. 13 (Summer 1967), 254; National Review, 19 (August 22, 1967), 915 (Shane Leslie); New Statesman, 72 (December 23, 1966), 941 (Maurice Richardson); New York Times (July 18, 1967), 35 (Thomas Lask), and reprinted in CPBook, 4, No. 14 (Winter 1968), 276, New York Times Book Review (July 23, 1967), 5 (Ivor Brown), and reprinted in CPBook, 3, No 13 (Summer 1967), 253; Newsweek, 70 (July 17, 1967), 91A-93 (S. K. Oberbeck); SHJ, 7, No. 2 (Spring 1965), 60; 7, No. 3 (Winter 1965), 90; 8, No. 1 (Winter 1966), 28 (Lord Donegall); Sherlockiana, 11, Nr. 3 (1966), 9; Sun [Paris] (May 27, 1965), and reprinted in SHJ, 7, No. 3 (Winter 1965), 95; Times Educational Supplement (November 25, 1966), 1312, and reprinted in CPBook, 3, No. 11 (Winter 1967), 222; Times Literary Supplement (March 18, 1965), 216; Wall Street Journal (August 1, 1967), 14 (Edmund Fuller), and reprinted in CPBook, 3, No. 12 (Spring 1967), 240.

Additional reviews: Books and Bookmen, 12 (January 1966), 73 (Anthony Lejeune); Chicago Tribune/Books Today (July 16, 1967) (Vincent Starrett); Daily Telegraph (December 1, 1966), 22 (David Holloway); JAMA, 203 (January 22, 1968), 308 (David F. Musto); Observer (October 23, 1966) (John Gross); St. Louis Globe-Democrat (July 8, 1967) (Eldon Miller); San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle/This World (August 13, 1967), 38 (Lenore Glen Offord); Toronto Daily Star (September 30, 1967) (Robert Weaver); Tulsa Daily World (July 9, 1967); Year's Work in English Studies, 47 (1966), 300.

C4440. -- B2023. [Nordon, Pierre.] "George Meredith vu par Sir Arthur Conan Doyle," de P. Weil-Nordon. Études Anglaises, 12, No. 3 (1959), 231-236.

Letters and conversations between these two literary men are quoted and discussed.

C4441. -- B2024. [Nordon, Pierre.] "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: A Complex Personality," by P. Weil-Nordon. The Guardian (May 18, 1959).

C4442. -- B2025. [Nordon, Pierre.] "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle et la France," de P. Weil-Nordon. Études Anglaises, 10, No. 2 (April-June 1957), 109-114.

C4443. -- B2027. "Not So Elementary, My Dear Watson," The Birmingham Post (August 15, 1951). illus.

----------, The Sherlock Holmes Scrapbook. p. 72.

The Rev. Sidney Austerbury, J.L. Hobbs, and Miss A. E. Corbett solve the mystery of the signature "Conan Doyle" in the St. Alkmund's Church visitors' book.

C4444. Nowell-Smith, Simon. The House of Cassell, 1848-1958. London: Cassell & Co. Ltd., [1958]. x, 299 p. illus.

Contains references to Doyle and the Holmes stories.

C4445. O'Hara, Gerald F. "Doyle's Visit to Jasper," The Jasper Booster (January 16, 1985). illus.

----------. ----------, CH, 10, No. 4 (Summer 1987), 31-34. illus.

----------. "Doyle's Visit to Jasper: 1914 Trip Revisited," CH, 11, No. 1 (Autumn 1987), 36-39.

----------. "Sherlock Holmes: The Alberta Connection," Alberta History, 36, No. 3 (Summer 1988), 11-14. illus.

An account of Doyle's visit to Jasper Park, Alberta, in 1914 and 1923; with photographs and a poem entitled "The Athabasca Trail," written by Doyle on June 18, 1914.

C4446. O'Hara, Gerald F. Travel Alberta with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes. [Edmonton: Privately Produced, n.d.] 19 p. illus.

A further account of Doyle's and perhaps Holmes's visit to Jasper in 1914.

C4447. O'Hara, Gerald F. Welcome to the Canadian West, Mr. Sherlock Holmes. [Edmonton: Unpublished MS, 1987.] [90] p. illus.

A valuable and well-illustrated book about the Western Canadian trips of Doyle in 1894, 1914, 1922, and 1923.

C4448. Olsson, Viktor. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Liv och minnen. Malmö: Världslitteraturens Förlag, [1930]. 191 p.

Contents: 1. Barndom och ynglingaår. -- 2. Studentliv. -- 3 Läkarpraktik. -- 4. De första litterära framgångarna. -- 5. Sherlock Holmes. -- 6. Resor. 7. Krigarliv. -- 8. Tolv år. 9. Krigsgåren. -- 10. Romantikern Sir Arthur. 11. Spiritisten Conan Doyle. -- Slutord.

C4449. O'Neill, Patrick. "The Stonyhurst Connection," Investigator: Patrick O'Neill; Photographer: John Cocks. Lancashire Life (July 1987).

"In the 100th anniversary year of the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes in print, we probe the mystery of Conan Doyle's schooldays." (Subtitle)

C4450. -- B2028. Orbaan, Albert. "Skiing-- Elementary, My Dear Watson," Ski, 35, No. 3 (November 1970), 140-142, 164. illus.

"When Sir Arthur brought the boards to Switzerland, even Holmes couldn't have foreseen what would happen. But a clever British artist named Cleaver did."

See also DB1966.

C4454. Patterson, A. Temple. "Portsmouth Nineteenth-Century Literary Figures," The Portsmouth Papers, No. 14 (January 1972), 3-17. illus.

Doyle is discussed on pages 14-17. "Almost the whole of Conan Doyle's time as a medical practitioner was spent in Portsmouth, four of his best-known novels were written there, and his greatest character created there."

C4455. Payne, Malcolm. "Conan Doyle's Grave," This England (Autumn 1991). illus.

----------. ----------, BC, 9, No. 8 (November-December 1992), 10.

A letter concerning "The Case of the Man Who Was Buried Twice" -- first in his garden at "Windlesham Manor" and then at Minstead.

C4456. Payne, Malcolm. "Notes on Motivation," The Parallelogram, 1, No. 3 (January 1992), 22-25; 1, No. 4 (March 1992), 31-33.

"... the beginning of a dialogue on Doyle's motivation" by the Curator of the Conan Doyle (Crowborough) Establishment.

C4457. Payne, Malcolm, comp. Recollections of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, by residents of Crowborough. Collected by Malcolm Payne. Edited, with some notes on "Windlesham" by Philip Weller. The Conan Doyle (Crowborough) Establishment / [Sherlock Publications], 1993. 26 p.

Contents: Foreword by Dame Jean Conan Doyle. -- Editor's Introduction. -- Preface by Malcolm Payne. -- Mr. Alfred Stiller (The Elder), Chauffeur at "Windlesham": Interviewed in June 1957. -- Mr. Alfred Stiller (The Younger), Resident at "Windlesham Cottage": Interviewed June 1992. -- Mrs. Kath Cornish (née Payne), Housemaid at "Windlesham": Postal Interview in 1975. -- Mrs. Amy Brunsdon, Housemaid at "Windlesham": Interviewed July 1978. -- Mr. Alfred Bassett, Gardener at "Windlesham": Interviewed in 1982 and 1984. Mr. Bill Latter, Chauffeur at "Windlesham": Interviewed in 1983 and 1988. -- Mr. Roger Payne, Garden Boy at "Windlesham": Conversations from 1967 to 1973. -- Mr. James Payne, Chauffeur at "Windlesham": Conversations Over Many Years. -- Mrs. Jess Evans and Mr. Cecil Evans: Interviewed in October 1991. -- A Visit to "Windlesham," October 1990, by Malcolm Payne. -- "Windlesham": Home of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, by Philip Weller. -- Comments on the Reminiscences, by Dame Jean Conan Doyle.

C4458. Payne, Malcolm. "Sherlock's Founding-Father," Country Weekly [Friday-Ad Limited, Uckfield, East Sussex], No. 217 (May 26, 1989), 5-7. illus.

"Sherlock Holmes -- Malcolm Payne looks at the life and character of his creator -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle." (Cover)

C4459. Payne, Malcolm. "The Squire of Crowborough," DC, 4, No. 4 (October 1991), 12-15.

Because Doyle won the respect and love of the people in Crowborough with his kindness and understanding, he became the local squire, "a man to whom the locals would turn for help and advise."

C4460. Payne, Michael. "Rare Photo Comes to Light," Crowborough Chronicle (November 14, 1991).

----------. ----------, BC, 9, No. 7 (October 1992), 5.

Commentary and photograph of Doyle's three sons in the garden of "Windlesham" (now Windlesham Manor) in 1916.

C4461. -- B2031. Pearsall, Ronald. Conan Doyle: A Biographical Solution. New York: St. Martin's Press, [1977]. vii, 208 p. illus.

Jacket design by Grant Bradford.

----------. ----------. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, [19771. vii, 208 p. illus.

Jacket design by Grant Bradford.

Contents: 1. A Catholic Education. 2. The Southsea Years. -- 3. Enter Sherlock Holmes. -- 4. Detectives and Detection. -- 5. Holmes Triumphant. -- 6. Consolidation. -- 7. The Boer War. 8. A Typical Edwardian. -- 9. The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes. -- 10. Fights for Justice. -- 11. Into the Unknown. -- 12. War. -- 13. Spirits from the Vasty Deep. 14. The Coming of the Fairies. -- 15. The Last Phase. -- Postscript. -- Bibliography. -- Index.

Reviews: BSM, No. 12 (December 1977), 23 (Peter E. Blau); Best Sellers, 37 (December 1977), 2-7 (Greg Mercuric); Books and Bookmen, 22 (August 1977), 33-34 (Christopher Sykes); Boston Globe (March 26, 1978) (Herbert A. Kenny); Choice, 14 (February 1978), 1647; EQMM, 72 (August 1978), 106-107 (Otto Penzler); Kirkus Reviews, 45 (July 15, 1977), 772; Library Journal, 102 (December 15, 1977), 2501 (David A. Dillon); New Yorker, 53 (October 31, 1977), 162; Observer (April 17, 1977), 25; Philadelphia Inquirer (October 2, 1977), 13-F (Ben Wolf), and reprinted in CPBook, 2, No. 1 (January 1979), 111; Publishers Weekly, 212 (July 18, 1977), 131; Rocky Mountain News/Now [Denver] (October 9, 1977), 30 (Peter G. Chronis), and reprinted in CPBook, 1, No. 3 (May 1978), 66; SHJ, 13, No. 2 (Summer 1977), 56 (Anthony D. Howlett); Sherlockiana, 22, Nr 2-3 (1977), 16 (Henry Lauritzen); Spectator, 238 (March 26, 1977), 21 (Rayner Heppenstall); Sunday Times (March 27, 1977), 39 (Julian Symons); Surrey Daily Advertiser (May 9, 1977) (Derek Hudson); Tulsa World/OK Tulsa World Sunday Magazine (December 4, 1977), 9-10 (Stafford G. Davis); Washington Post/Book World (December 25, 1977), H5 (Paul Piazza); (January 29, 1978) (Jack A. French); Western Daily Press [Bristol] (March 25, 1977) (Dan Lees).

C4462. [Pearsall, Ronald. Conan Doyle: A Biographical Solution. Tr. by Tsukasa Kobayashi and Hiroyuki Shima. Tokyo: Shincho-sha, 1983.] 290 p. illus.

----------. ----------. Glasgow: Richard Drew Publishing, [1989]. v, 208 p.

Cover design by Blue Peach Design Consultants.

C4463. Pearson, David. "Stonyhurst College Revisited," MB, 5, No. 2 (June 1979), 6-7.

The author describes his visit to the Catholic school Doyle attended during his adolescence.

C4464. Pearson, Edmund Lester. "Memories and Adventures, by Arthur Conan Doyle," Current Reviews. Edited by Lewis Worthington Smith. New York: Henry Holt and Co., [1926]. p. 93-97.

C4465. -- A3956. Pearson, Hesketh. Conan Doyle. His Life and Art. London: Methuen & Co., [1943]. vii, 193 p. illus.

----------. ----------. London: Published for the British Publishers Guild by Methuen and Co., [1946]. vii, 207 p. (Guild Books, No. 224)

----------. Conan Doyle. New York: Walker & Co., [1961]. 256 p.

"Pearson's work is a popular biography with few footnotes and no bibliography. His main contention is that the simplicity of Conan Doyle enabled him to write exactly what the public wanted to read. ... By repeatedly stressing Doyle's naivete, simplicity, and faults as a writer, Pearson, though undoubtedly correct, often gives an uncomplimentary tone to his portrait of Doyle." (Edward S. Lauterbach)

Reviews: English Fiction in Transition, 5 (1962), 48-49 (E. S. Lauterbach); John O'London's Weekly, 50 (October 8, 1943), 1-2 (Norman Collins); New York Herald Tribune Books (July 10, 1962), 10; San Francisco Chronicle (December 3, 1961), 39 (L. G. Offord); Saturday Review, 44 (October 28, 1961), 24-25 (John T. Winterich).

C4466. -- B2032. Pearson, Hesketh. Conan Doyle. London: White Lion Publishers Ltd., [1974]. 256 p.

----------. Conan Doyle: His Life and Art. New York: Taplinger Pub. Co., [1977]. viii, 193 p. illus.

Jacket design by Paul Chevannes.

Additional reviews: Daily Telegraph (November 4, 1943) (Hesketh Pearson); Manchester Evening News (November 27, 1945) (Hesketh Pearson); New Statesman and Nation (September 25, 1943) (G. W. Stonier); News Review (November 8, 1945); (November 29, 1945) (Adrian Conan Doyle); Sunday Graphic (October 10, 1943) (John Brophy), and reprinted in The Sherlock Holmes Scrapbook, p. 53; Sunday Times (October 24, 1943) (Hesketh Pearson, Francis Iles); Sussex Express and County Herald (September 10, 1943); Time and Tide (November 8, 1943) (A.A. Milne; Angela Mooriand); (November 13, 1943) (John Crow; J. d la Mare Rowley); The Times (October 28, 1943), 2 (Adrian Conan Doyle); (November 1, 1943), 2 (Hesketh Pearson).

C4467. Pearson, Hesketh. Conan Doyle. Introduction by Graham Greene. London: Unwin Paperbacks, [1987]. xiii, 193 p. illus.

Cover illustration by Mark Edwards.

Design by Miller Craig and Cocking.

C4468. -- B2033. Pearson, Hesketh. "More Than Sherlock Holmes: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859 1930," The Sunday Times (May 17, 1959). illus.

A centenary article in which George Bernard Shaw's comment is quoted that Holmes was a dope addict without a single amiable trait, while Watson was a decent fellow.

C4469. -- A3957. Pearson, Hesketh. "Sherlock Holmes and `The Strand,'" The Strand, 105 (August 1943), 44-47.

"Commentary on a relationship which spanned more than a generation." (Edgar W. Smith)

C4470. -- B2034. Pearson, Hesketh. Thinking It Over: The Reminiscences of Hesketh Pearson. London: Hamish Hamilton, [1938]. 332 p.

----------. ----------. New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1938. 332 p.

On pages 52-56 of this excellent autobiography, the author fondly recalls his first meeting with one of his boyhood heroes, Conan Doyle, who was living at Hindhead.

C4471. -- B2035. Pearson, Hesketh, and Hugh Kingsmill. "Sherlock Holmes," Skye High: The Record of a Tour Through Scotland in the Wake or Samuel Johnson and James Boswell. Oxford University Press, 1938. p. 243-246.

A brief dialogue about the relative merits of Doyle's attitudes toward Holmes and his medieval historical novels.

C4472. Peterson, Audrey. Victorian Masters of Mystery: From Wilkie Collins to Conan Doyle. New York: Frederick Ungar Pub. Co., [1984]. vii, 235 p.

Published in hardcover and paperback editions.

Contains several references to Doyle, including a chapter entitled "Arthur Conan Doyle and the Great Detective," which is more about Doyle than Holmes.

Reviews: The Armchair Detective, 19 (Winter 1986), 102 (Jon L. Breen); BSM, No. 41 (Spring 1985), 51-53 (Robert F. Fleissner); Modern Fiction Studies, 31 (Summer 1985), 382-389 (Edward S. Lauterbach).

C4473. Phillpotts, Eden. From the Angle of 88. London; New York: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., [1951]. 128 p.

Chapter 11 is devoted to "Sir A. Conan Doyle" and others, and includes some glowing comments about Doyle; e.g.: "We met in early days, when we lived not far apart near London, and I can still treasure acts of kindness from him, for he was made of kindness."

C4474. -- B2036. Pierce, Patricia. "Dear Me, Mr. Holmes, Dear Me!" HP, 1, No. 3 (May 1977), 1-3.

A salute to the author on his 118th birthday.

C4475. Pond, J. B. "A. Conan Doyle," Eccentricities of Women of Genius: Memories of Famous Men and Women of the Platform and Stage, by Major J. B. Pond. New York: G. W. Dillingham Co., [1900]. p. 503-509. illus.

----------. ----------, ----------. London: Chatto & Windus, 1901. p. 503-509. illus.

A highly favorable account of Doyle's visit to America by his manager, Major Pond, including Doyle's impression of this country, as related in a story he told at a dinner given in his honor by the Lotos Club, New York, on November 17, 1894. Also quoted is a conversation between Doyle and a Boston cabbie in which the observant cabman tells him how he used Holmes's methods to deduce the identity of the famous author.

C4476. Prestige, Colin. "Conan Doyle as a Writer," SHJ, 15, No. 2 (Summer 1981), 47-48. illus.

An informative review of some of Doyle's major writings. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was not merely author but also biographer, autobiographer, historian, short-story writer, crusader and scientist. He wielded his pen with the vision of a Milton, the consciousness of Wordsworth, the social acumen of a Dickens and the illumination of every major late nineteenth century author."

C4477. Prosser, David. "Conan Doyle: Reason and Rebellion," The Whig-Standard Magazine (July 19, 1980), 4-5. illus.

"What sort of imagination was it that supplied the vital spark that created Sherlock Holmes--"

C4478. -- B2037. Rabe, W. T. "Case of the Scholar, the Letters, the Retired Ladies' Maid," Chop Talk [London Chop House, Detroit] (August 1954), 2-3. illus.

"A Sherlockian-type adventure in which Mrs. Threadgold finds McCabe Doyled again."

C4479. -- B2038. Ratcliffe, S. K. "Arthur Conan Doyle," The New Statesman (July 12, 1930), 442.

C4480. -- A3958. Rawson, Mitchell. "A Case for Sherlock," Sports Illustrated [Eastern edition], 14 (March 13, 1961), 9-10.

"The Jeffries-Johnson title prize fight nearly had Arthur Conan Doyle as its referee." (Subtitle)

C4481. -- A3959. Raymond, E. T. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as Dr. Watson," The Living Age, 300 (March 22, 1919), 730-733.

"An identification to be preferred to the several others which make him one with Holmes." (Edgar W. Smith)

C4482. Redmond, Chris. "His Master's Voice," CH, 9, No. 1 (Autumn 1985), 10.

Descriptions of Doyle's voice from nine American newspapers in 1894.

C4483. Redmond, Chris. "Massachusetts Welcomes Arthur Conan Doyle," BSM, No. 41 (Spring 1985), 1-9, 34.

Details of Doyle's visit to the U.S. in the autumn of 1894, with sidelights on the Boston cabman who reputedly astounded Doyle with his own deductive prowess.

C4484. Redmond, Chris. "The Toronto Doctors Who Welcomed Doyle," CH, 10, No. 2 (Winter 1986), 35-38.

The material in this article was gathered as part of the research for the author's book, Welcome to America, Mr. Sherlock Holmes.

C4485. Redmond, Chris. "Tracks Across Doyle's Lawn," CH, 13, No. 1 (Autumn 1989), 33.

A telephone conversation with 91-year-old Roy G. Allan of Kitchener, Ontario, relating how he and other Canadian soldiers met Sir Arthur in his yard in Crowborough, Sussex, during the winter of 1917.

C4486. Redmond, Chris. "Welcome to America, Mr. Sherlock Holmes:" Victorian America Meets Arthur Conan Doyle. [Toronto]: Simon & Pierre, [1987]. 235 p.

Cover design: Christopher W. Sears.

"Christopher Redmond's fascinating account of Doyle's first trip to America has been reconstructed from newspaper accounts describing the places Doyle visited, from the Adirondacks to New York, Chicago, Toronto. Despite the gruelling tour schedule, Doyle met dozens of the most important literary and social lights of America, and felt the romance of the country that enthraled him all his life. Everywhere he went he was mobbed by a public hungry for news of the man he had `killed off' a year earlier -- Sherlock Holmes.

"The lengthy notes and comments following the text reveal the depth of Redmond's research, from history and travel books to letters and news items; this is a valuable social commentary on the America of 1894, and the reactions of a noted British novelist."

Reviews: BSJ, 38, No. 2 (June 1988), 123 (Philip A. Shreffler); BSM, No. 53 (Spring 1988), 33-37 (Jon L. Lellenberg); CH, 11, No. 3 (Spring 1988), 28-29 (Doug Elliott); SHJ, 19, No. 1 (Winter 1988), 31 (Nicholas Utechin); SHR, 2, No. 2 (1989), 98 (Steven T. Doyle).

C4487. -- B2039. Redmond, Donald A. "A Reader's Guide to Doyle Biographies," BSM, No. 14 (June 1978), 31-35, inside back cover.

A critical review of twelve biographies, including Doyle's autobiography, in which Redmond concludes that at least six books -- those by Pearsall, Higham, Brown, Pearson, Nordon, and Carr -- must be read to get a full and rounded picture. "No biography is complete; some of them are tiresome in spots; several are a waste of time. Perhaps no more are needed."

C4488. Redmond, Donald A. "ACD and the EB: A Speculation About a Vital Book," CH, 8, No. 4 (Summer 1985), 14-15.

"Thoughts about the encyclopaedia that must have stood near Arthur Conan Doyle's desk."

C4489. Redmond, Donald A. "Doylimericks," MSB, 11, No. 5 (October 1988), 5.

"A certain young Southsea physician / Considered it part of his mician / In addition to pills / For relieving folks' ills / To chill them with Holmes's precician."

C4490. Richardson, Carroll. "50th Anniversary of Death of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle," Los Angeles Times (July 5, 1980), 11, 4.

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C4491. Rochette, Ed. "French Medal Honors Sir Arthur Conan Doyle," The Buffalo News (April 29, 1979). (Coin Roundup)

----------. "It's Elementary -- For Collectors of Medals, Newsday [N.Y.] (April 29, 1979), II, 35. illus.

Comments on the medal issued by the French Mint. It is part of a continuing collectors' series issued through the Club Francais de la Medaille.

C4492. Roden, Christopher. "In Conversation with ... Air Cmdt. Dame Jean Conan Doyle," ACD, 1, No. 2 (March 1990), 112-120.

An interview with the daughter of Sir Arthur by the founder of The Arthur Conan Doyle Society and co-editor of its journal.

C4493. Rodin, Alvin E., and Jack D. Key. "Medical Reputation and Literary Creation," SHR, 3, No. 1 (1991), 12-15.

"An essay on Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes." (Subtitle)

C4494. Rodin, Alvin E., and Jack D. Key. "The New Forest, Bignell Wood and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle," BSM, No. 46 (Summer 1986), 16-27. illus.

The authors describe their visit to the summer home of Sir Arthur and Lady Doyle in Bignell Wood, located in the New Forest on the south coast of England. It is now the couple's final resting place, their remains having been transferred in 1955 from Crowborough to the grounds of the old Norman Church in Minstead.

C4495. Rodin, Alvin E., and Jack D. Key. "Our British Cousin: Highlights and Attitudes of Arthur Conan Doyle in America," ACD, 3 (1992), 141-150.

Accounts of Doyle's four visits to North America in 1894, 1914, 1922, and 1923.

C4496. Rodin, Alvin E., and Jack D. Key. "A Plymouth Adventure: Arthur Conan Doyle and George Turnavine Budd," BSM, No. 57 (Spring 1989), 1-20. illus.

In 1882 Doyle assisted George Budd with his medical practice in Plymouth. Budd's flamboyant and bullying manner with patients had resulted in a very large practice. They parted under strained conditions after six weeks. Doyle then established his own medical practice in Southsea, Portsmouth. His practice behaviour was much more conventional than that of Budd. Budd, however, greatly influenced Doyle's literary works. This is reflected in the author's unconventional professors, Challenger and Maracot, his outrageous Brigadier Gerard, and possibly Roylott of Spec. Holmes's egocentricity may have been similarly derived from Budd's.

C4497. Rodin, Alvin E., and Jean Rodin. "In Memory of John Doyle, 1912-1987," BSM, No. 51 (Autumn 1987), 34-35. illus.

A biographical sketch and comments on the Rodins' visit with the son of Innes Hay Doyle, the younger brother of Sir Arthur.

C4498. -- A3960. Rosenbach, A.S.W. "The Trail of Scarlet," The Saturday Evening Post, 205, No. 14 (October 1, 1932), 8-9, 32, 34, 36.

----------. ----------. A Book Hunter's Holiday: Adventures with Books and Manuscripts. Boston; New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1936. Chap. 3, p. 37-94.

Contains information about detective fiction and Doyle's crime library which the author believed was "the actual reference library used by Conan Doyle in the creation of his immortal detective, Sherlock Holmes."

C4499. Rosenblatt, Albert and Julia. "In the Tracks of Sherlock Holmes," Skiing, 34, No. 6 (February 1982), 74-78. illus.

----------. ----------, CPBook, 5, No. 1 (March 1982), 434-436.

"On a ski trip to Switzerland, the authors retrace the steps of Arthur Conan Doyle, physician, author -- and one of the first to set foot on skis at Davos in the 1890's."

C4500. -- A3961. Rosenblum, Morris. "11 Picardy Place, Edinburgh: The Birthplace of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle," BSJ, 13, No. 4 (December 1963), 211-213.

A description of Dr. and Mrs. Rosenblum's visit to this literary landmark and their suggestion that the house be turned into a "Sherlock Holmes -- John H. Watson -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Museum."

C4501. -- A3962. Rubow, Paul V. "A. Conan Doyle," Epigonerne: Afhandlinger og portraetter. København: Ejnar Munksgaard, 1956. p. 124-130.

C4502. -- B2041. Sayers, Dorothy L. "Conan Doyle: Crusader," The Sunday Times (February 6, 1949).

----------. ----------, The Sherlock Holmes Scrapbook. p. 55.

"His story, from its struggling and impecunious beginnings to its wealthy and honoured close, is the adventure of an eager, chivalrous and courageous nature, accepting life in all its manifestations with an enormous gusto."

C4503. Scheideman, J. Warren. "Arthur Conan Doyle Drawn by Max," DCC, 18, No. 1 (February 1982), 2-5. illus.

Max Beerbohm, caricaturist and man of letters (1872-1956), did two caricatures of Doyle, both of which are reproduced therein. One is undated and untitled. The other is "The Encaenia of 1908" (DB5359), where Doyle is one of a group of public personalities supposedly receiving honorary degrees from Oxford University. Max also engaged Doyle in a mild exchange of opinions through a review and subsequent correspondence in The Saturday Review during 1896-1897.

C4504. Schwan, Gary. "The Man Behind Sherlock Holmes," The Palm Beach Post (November 22, 1987), 1L, 5L. illus.

"Holmes merely a nuisance to his remarkable creator."

C4505. "Scientific Sleuth," BBC London Calling, 7, No. 12 (October 1978), 8. illus.

A brief article on Doyle's life.

C4506. Scriba, Jay. "He may Have Been the Real Sherlock., Milwaukee Journal (October 24, 1976). illus.

----------. ----------, CPBook, 3, No. 2 (June-July 1980), 235-236.

"Author Doyle was a savagely energetic adventurer whose life was nearly as exciting as that of his hero." (Subtitle)

C4507. -- B2042. Shackell, Richard. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Visit to San Francisco," VH, 8, No. 1 (January 1974), 7-8.

Doyle made four trips to the U.S.: October-December 1894, May-July 1914, 1922, and May-June 1923. During his last trip he visited Dr. Abrams at 2151 Sacramento Street in San Francisco one morning between May 30 and June 6, 1923, but Doyle did not occupy the house as stated on a plaque in front of the house.

C4508. -- A3963. "Sherlock Holmes in Real Life," by a Barrister and ex-Official of New Scotland Yard [Illustrations by Howard K. Elcock.] The Strand Magazine, 64 (September 1922), 282-289.

C4509. "Sherlock's Greatest Enemy," The Observer [London] (December 6, 1987). illus.

----------, FH, 1, No. 4 (May 1988), 3-4.

C4510. -- A3964. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle," Cyclopedia of World Authors. Edited by Frank N. Magill. New York: Harper & Brothers, [1958]. p. 312-314.

C4511. -- A3965. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle," A Library of Literary Criticism: Modern British Literature. Compiled and edited by Ruth Z. Temple and Martin Tucker. New York: Ungar, [1966]. Vol. 1, p. 234-236.

Four critical excerpts on the literary agent and the Canonical tales.

C4512. -- A3966. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle," Twentieth Century Authors. Edited by Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft. New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1942. p. 396-397.

C4513. -- A3967. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, M.D.," St. Bartholomew's Hospital Journal, 56, No. 3 (March 1952), 333-334.

"A plea for a little more attention to Sherlock Holmes's great and good friend but with no diminution of attention to Holmes himself or to Watson." (Edgar W. Smith)

C4514. -- A3968. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Physician, Historical Novelist, Creator of Sherlock Holmes," Clinical Excerpts [New York: Winthrop Chemical Co.] 19, No. 8 (1945), 227-234.

----------, CPBook, 2, No. 7-8 (Winter-Spring 1966), 157-164.

C4515. -- B2044. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle," Life [N.Y.] (October 8, 1908). (The Pen Is Mightier Than the Jimmy)

"A human mint, who discovered himself after long and earnest effort, with the aid of a detective, who had to come to life twice, however, before his master realized his real worth. This gentleman sowed a crop of characters in England and reaped the reward in America. The only stumbling block against his immortality is that he has been made a member of the British nobility. It is hoped, however, that he will live this down. His greatest merit is that he reduced logic to an inexact science. His greatest crime: That he has laid the basis of more horrible burlesques than any other writer. Favorite tool: Typewriter. Recreation: Depositing money. Cable address: `Hypodermic.'"

C4516. -- B2047. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The Man Who Made Sherlock Holmes," Look and Learn, No. 143 (October 10, 1964), 9. (A Guide to Authors and Their Books, No. 3)

C4517. -- B2048. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Garden Burial," Daily Mirror (July 12, 1930), 11.

Two photographs of the funeral service in the garden of his home at Crowborough, Sussex.

C4518. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The Creator of `Sherlock Holmes,'" The Times (July 3, 1930), 19.

An Obituary.

C4519. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The Man and His Books," The Popular Educator, 8 (June 5, 1940), 4136-4140.

Contents: The Boy, the Man and the Author. -- The Historical Romances. -- The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.

C4520. -- A3969. [Smith Edgar W.] "A. C. D. -- 1859-1930," BSJ, 9, No. 4 (October 1959), 195-196. (The Editor's Gas-Lamp)

An Irregular's tribute to the memory of a great man on his centennial.

C4521. -- A3970. [Smith Edgar W.] "On Certain Literary Hoaxes," BSJ, 3, No. 2 (April 1953), 67-68. (The Editor's Gas-Lamp)

A criticism of Adrian Conan Doyle for seeking to identify his father with Holmes.

C4522. -- A3971. [Smith, H. Greenhough.] "The Passing of Conan Doyle," The Strand Magazine, 80 (September 1930), 227-230.

C4523. -- B2049. Smith, H. Greenhough. "Some Letters of Conan Doyle, With Notes and Comments by H. Greenhough Smith," The Strand Magazine (October 1930), 390-395.

An excellent and revealing discussion, with quotations, of Sir Arthur's style, source of ideas, and opinions of his own writings. Much of the article is about Holmes; and in one of the three illustrations, Doyle is shown with Ellie Norwood.

C4524. Smithers, David Waldron. This Idle Trade: On Doctors Who Were Writers. Turnbridge Wells, Kent: The Dragonfly Press, [1989]. 272 p. illus.

Partial contents: Chap. 10. Detectives and Doctors (Richard Austin Freeman and Arthur Conan Doyle).

Review: ACD, 1, No. 3 (September 1990), 234-235 (David Stuart Davies).

C4525. -- B2050. Spence, W. A. "Conan Doyle Statue--" The Scotsman (January 7, 1976).

A letter in which the writer proposes that the kinetic sculpture in Leith Walk, Edinburgh, be replaced by a statue of Sir Arthur.

C4526. Stableford, Brian. Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950. New York: St. Martin's Press, [1985]. vii, 372 p.

An author-by-author history of British science fiction, with numerous references to Doyle, including a section entitled "Arthur Conan Doyle" (p. 84-90).

C4527. Stavert, Geoffrey. "The Birthplace of Sherlock Holmes," BSM, No. 58 (Summer 1989), 1-17. illus.

A potted history of the naval base and vacation resort of Portsmouth, from Roman times to the 1980's. Southsea, where Doyle made his home from 1882 to 1890, is part of Portsmouth. The article describes his creation of the Holmes/Watson partnership, in the course of developing his writing skills from magazine short stories to full-length novels.

C4528. Stavert, Geoffrey. "Conan Doyle: His Life and Art, by Hesketh Pearson," ACD, 1, No. 2 (March 1990), 121-124.

A retrospective review of a biography that was first published in 1943 (DA3956).

"Pearson's Conan Doyle has aroused strong opinions. Graham Greene praised it, but most views have been anti. Pierre Nordon called it a pseudo-biography; Owen Dudley Edwards accuses him of laziness and awards him a `friendly kicking,' but at least regards it as a worthier book than Dickson Carr's, and his insights as thought-provoking. It was considered worth re-publishing as a paperback in 1987. In my opinion, it remains a lot more fair than unfair; not a work for a scholar maybe (there are no references), but an excellent preparation for the weightier probings of Nordon and Edwards. Two cheers, perhaps-- Well, two and a half!"

C4529. Stavert, Geoffrey. "The Southsea Connection," SHJ, 16, No. 1 (Winter 1982), 6-9. illus.

An account of the proceedings of the Portsmouth Literary and Scientific Society for the years 1880 to 1890, covering the period when Doyle was a resident in Southsea and a member of the Society. The attempt was made, unsuccessfully, to show that Watson might have been present at some of the lectures, but showed instead that Holmes could have been.

C4530. Stavert, Geoffrey. A Study in Southsea: The Unrevealed Life of Doctor Arthur Conan Doyle. [Horndean, Hants]: Milestone Publications, [1987]. 192 p. illus.

The first detailed account of Doyle's life as a resident of Southsea, Portsmouth, covering the eight-and-a-half years during which he not only practiced successfully as a family doctor and became prominent in local sporting, literary and political life, but also created Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, became a popular short story writer and historical novelist, and fostered his abiding interest in spirit communication. The story is completed by an account of the short holiday he spent in the summer of 1896, and of two unsolved little mysteries in his personal life that arose from this.

Reviews: BSJ, 38, No. 1 (March 1988), 5859 (Philip A. Shreffler); BSM, No. 53 (Spring 1988), 33-37 (Jon L. Lellenberg); BSN, 4, No. 3 (Michaelmas Term 1987), 8 (Colin Whorlow); CH, 11, No. 3 (Spring 1988), 2 (Chris Redmond); The Scotsman (December 5, 1987) (Owen Dudley Edwards); SHJ, 18, No. 4 (Summer 1988), 127-128 (Nicholas Utechin); SHR, 2, No. 2 (1989), 97 (Steven T. Doyle); Southern Evening Echo [Southampton] (October 19, 1987); Sunday Telegraph (November 29, 1987) (John Keegan).

C4531. -- B2051. Stefansson, Vilhjalmur. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle," The Outlook Vol. 131, No. 1 (May 3, 1922), 26-27. illus.

"Conan Doyle is not merely a sturdier Watson and a kinder Holmes. He is also a gentler Sir Nigel and a mellow blend of all the host of his nobler characters."

C4532. -- B2052. Stella, Manuela. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the Creator of Sherlock Holmes. Relatore Prof. Giovanna Foa'. Sessione estiva 1964-1965. 101 p. (Tesi N. 2978)

Thesis -- Milano: Universita' Commericale Luigi Bocconi.

C4533. Stern, Madeleine B. "A Phrenological Case Study," AB Bookman's Weekly, 69, No. 18 (May 3, 1982), 3465-3467.

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Doyle was not only attracted to the pseudo-science of phrenology but actually had his head examined at the Golgotha of Ludgate Circus. The results were published in the April 1897 issue of the Phrenological Journal and reprinted in this article. Stern's article is a prelude to her monograph, The Game's A Head.

C4534. -- B2053. Stet. "Back Numbers -- LXXII," The Saturday Review [London] (May 12, 1928), 597.

A critical review of Sir Arthur's writings, including the Canonical tales. The author laments the fact that he no longer can enjoy Sherlock Holmes as he did in his youth. How sad!

C4535. Stiller, E. D. "Interview of Mr. E. D. Stiller by Malcolm Payne at `Alyn,' Hurtis Hill, Crowborough, on 16 June 1992," BSPB, No. 11 (July 1992), 30-31.

An interview with the son of Alf Stiller, who was the chauffeur-mechanic for Sir Arthur at "Windlesham Cottage" from 1907 to 1915.

The interview is followed by an obituary for Alfred Stiller (1884-1969).

C4536. Stoïanov, Isabelle. "Le pire ennemi de Sherlock Holmes," Historia [Paris], No. 404 (July 1980), 74-81. illus.

With a cover illustration of Robert Stephens in The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes.

C4537. Stoker, Bram. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Tells of His Career and Work, His Sentiments Towards America, and His Approaching Marriage," The World [New York] (July 28, 1907).

----------. ----------, [shorter version] The Daily Chronicle (February 14, 1908).

----------. ----------, My Evening with Sherlock Holmes. Compiled by John Gibson & Richard Green. [London]: Ferret, [1981]. p. 109-115.

"Count Dracula" interviews "Sherlock Holmes."

C4538. -- B2054. Stokes, Sewell. Personal Glimpses. With illustrations by "Matt." London: T. Werner Laurie Ltd., 1924. xi, 144 p.

Candid impressions of some "extraordinary beings" the author met, including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (p. 126, 131-134).

C4539. -- B2055. Sul. "Tiny Takes a Break from the West's Little America," Bath Evening Chronicle (July 26, 1973).

Concerns Constance Holland, secretary at Bath's American Museum for fourteen years, and secretary to Doyle from 1928 until his death.

C4540. Sutherland, Richard. "What Life Was Really Like at 221b Baker St.," The Medical Post (September 12, 1982), 34. illus.

A general article about Doyle, his medical practice and writings.

C4541. -- B2056. Swinton, W. E. "Conan Doyle: The Unmysterious Case of the Physician Who Disappeared from Medicine," Canadian Medical Association Journal, 113, No. 10 (November 22, 1975), 989-995. illus.

----------. ----------, Physicians in Literature: Canadian Medical Association Journal. Toronto: Jason A. Hannah Institute for the History of Medical and Related Sciences, 1976. p. 3-6. illus.

----------. ----------, BC, 7, No. 7 (October 1990), 6-8. illus.

One in a series of articles by Dr. Swinton about physicians who have contributed to literature.

C4542. Symons, Julian. "Holmes Was a Sideline," The New York Times Book Review (August 3, 1980), 3, 18.

An article about Sir Arthur on the 50th anniversary of his death, with an illustration of Holmes by David Johnson.

C4543. Symons, Julian. Portrait of an Artist: Conan Doyle. [London]: Whizzard Press/André Deutsch, [1979]. 138 p.

[ ----------. Conan Doyle: Portrait of an Artist. Tr. by Mariko Fukamachi. Tokyo: Tokyo Sogensha, 1984.] 176, 6 p. illus. (Key Library)

----------. ----------. New York: The Mysterious Press, [November 1987]. 137 p. illus.

Jacket design by Louise Fili.

A concise and readable introduction to the man and his work, with 87 illustrations in color and black and white.

Reviews: BSM, No. 22 (Summer 1980), 41 (Nicholas Utechin; No. 23 (Fail 1980), 32-33 (Peter E. Blau); Blackwood's Magazine, 327 (April 1980), 317-318 (Alexander Maitland); Country Life (March 13, 1980), 795-796 (Marghanita Laski); Daily Express (December 6, 1979) (Peter Grosvenor); Jury, 9, Nr. 3 (1980), 39-40 (Ted Bergman); Now! No. 13 (December 7-13, 1979), 92-93 (Kingsley Amis); Observer (December 23, 1979) (Christopher Wordsworth); SHJ, 14, Nos. 3-4 (Summer 1980), 113 (Nicholas Utechin); The Sunday Times (January 20, 1980), 42 (John Carey); The Year's Work in English Studies, 60 (1979), 359.

C4544. Thomalen, Robert E. "A Toast," PP (NS), No. 6 (June 1990), 4.

A toast in three limerickian stanzas to the Literary Agent, marking the 131st anniversary of his birth, May 22, 1990.

C4545. Tracy, Jack. "Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes: The Creator versus the Creation," Mystery, 2, No. 2 (March 1981), 26-28.

"The career and achievements of Sherlock Holmes pale beside those of his creator. ... The creator is of necessity superior to the thing created, and if Doyle occasionally was harsh toward his character, the fact only serves to illustrate which of them was actually in command. ... Holmes danced to Conan Doyle's tune, and never the other way round."

C4546. Triebel, L. A. "Creator of Sherlock Holmes," Fisher's Ghost and Other Essays, by L. A. Triebel. Foreword by Walter Murdoch. Preface by E. Morris Miller. Melbourne and London: F. W. Cheshire, [1950]. p. 149-152.

"... an author may hope to fulfil the chief end of man in leaving others a little happier than he found them; Conan Doyle's brave spirit triumphed here and now."

C4547. Utechin, Nicholas. "Agent, No Master," ACD, 1, No. 1 (September 1989), 30.

The editor of SHJ throws water on the idea that Doyle was Watson's literary agent. (It's a game, to be sure, but one that has provided untold joy to countless Sherlockians!)

C4548. Utechin, Nicholas. "How `They' Treated the Anniversary," SHJ, 15, No. 1 (Winter 1980), 4-5.

Reviews the publicity given Doyle by the media on the 50th anniversary of his death.

C4549. Utechin, Nicholas. "`Steel True, Blade Straight,'" SHJ, 14, Nos. 3-4 (Summer 1980), 69.

A moving tribute to Sir Arthur, "the sine qua non of all our happy comradeship," on the occasion of his death fifty years ago.

C4550. -- A3975. Van Der Plas, Michel. "Conan Doyle: Schepper van een traditie" ["Conan Doyle: Creator of a Tradition"], Elsevier (August 12, 1967), 54-56.

C4551. Victoria and Albert Museum. Richard Doyle and His Family. [London]: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1983. 73 p. illus.

A handsome catalog of an exhibition held from November 30, 1983, to February 26, 1984. One section of the catalog is entitled "Chronology of the Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle" (p. 61-64).

C4552. -- B2058. "Vor hundert Jahren: `Mr. Sherlock Holmes' studierte in Feldkirch" ["Mr. Sherlock Holmes Studied in Feldkirch a Hundred Years Ago"], Vorarlberger Nachrichten (March 14, 1975), 8. illus.

"A student town, rich in tradition, has in its annals not only prominent teachers but also students, who perhaps in politics, science, art or in the history of literature have been noticed. The town of Feldkirch dares boast that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle studied for a year in the Stella Matutina and already had written. The creator of the unforgettable characters Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson was a co-worker at the Feldkircher Anzeiger."

C4553. W., R. D. "Sherlock Holmes' Creator Had Many Enthusiasms," Farnham Herald (August 7, 1980). illus.

"This article by a contributor on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who lived at Hindhead from 1896 to 1906 summarises the extraordinary active life of this man of many interests."

C4554. Wall, E. Wayne. Sir Arthur. West Columbia, S.C.: The Hansom Wheels, 1982. 1 folded sheet.

----------. ----------, God and Sherlock Holmes, by Wayne Wall. West Columbia, S.C.: The Hansom Wheels, [1984]. p. i.

A poetic tribute in eight stanzas, with a note of appreciation from Jean Conan Doyle.

"I know him well, though we have never met / Nor crossed the stage of time in unison. / But we have often walked together, yet, / As dear, old friends whose hearts oft' beat as one."

C4555. -- B2060. Watson, E. H. Lacon. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle," Lectures to Living Authors, by Lacon [pseud.]. Adorned with portraits of some of the various subjects, by Quiz [pseud.] London: Geoffrey Bles, [1925]. No. 5, p. 53-61.

----------. ----------, ----------. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1925. No. 5, p. 53-61.

C4556. -- A3978. Welch, George W. "Some Fragmentary Notes on `Undershaw' To-day," SHJ, 4, No. 2 (Spring 1959), 40, 65.

Comments on the house Doyle lived in from 1897 to 1907.

C4557. Weller, Philip. "Conan Doyle at `Undershaw,'" Disjecta Memoranda III (1993), 7-10.

A description of Doyle's house at Hindhead, together with its Canonical and other connections.

C4558. Weller, Philip. "'Windlesham': Final Home of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle," BSM, No. 68 (Winter 1991), 13-17. Disjecta Memoranda II (1992), 1-4.

A description of the house where Doyle lived from 1907 to 1930, including Canonical and other connections.

C4559. Wheeler, Ethel. "Dr. Conan Doyle." The Weekly Sun (June 19, 1898), 7. (London of the Novelists)

----------. ----------, My Evening with Sherlock Holmes. Compiled by John Gibson & Richard Green. [London]: Ferret, [1981]. p. 116-119.

C4560. White, Ronald S. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the Pacific Northwest," ACD, 3 (1992), 76-82.

Using as their primary reference source, Our Second American Adventure, the author and his wife Susan Warner retrace Doyle's route between San Francisco and Victoria, British Columbia, in 1923.

C4561. -- B2061. White, Trumbull. "An Editorial Adventure Story," The Bookman, 55, No. 4 (July 1922), 452-457.

----------. ----------, BSM, No. 37 (Spring 1984), 7-13.

The author tells of his plan and negotiations with Gillette, Hornung, and Doyle for a Doyle-Hornung collaboration in which Holmes and Raffles would be joint heroes in a serialized story and play. Only Doyle declined the offer.

C4562. Whitt, J. F. "A.C.D. and `The Chronicles of the Strand Club,'" SHJ, 14, Nos. 3-4 (Summer 1980), 82-83.

C4563. Wigan, Michael. "Conan Doyle's Lost World," The Scotsman [Edinburgh] (May 19, 1979).

Examines the character and aspirations of Sir Arthur on the eve of his 120th birthday. Illustrated with a photograph of Doyle, his second wife Jean, and children, Denis and Adrian.

C4564. Wiggins, Elizabeth. "Doyle ... His Life and Works," SHG, No. 1 (May 4, 1991), 11, 16.

A biographical sketch, with a drawing by Sue Woolcock.

C4565. Wiggins, Elizabeth. "Home Sweet Home," SHG, No. 5 (Summer 1992), 10-11. illus.

"Why Windlesham was a haven of true happiness. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's final years in a much-loved house."

C4566. Wiggins, Elizabeth. ["Sir Arthur Conan Doyle"], SHG, No. 4 (Spring 1992), 10-15. illus.

Contents: Doyle's Prescription to Achieve Happiness. Memorable Times for Doyle and His Family. Blazing a Trail for a Second Strand Series. -- Mark McPherson Flies in for Evening of Doyle. -- In Memory of Sir Arthur: Crowborough Remembers Its Most Famous Resident.

C4567. -- B2062. Willey, Day Allen. "Sir Conan Doyle at Home," The Book News Monthly (June 1912), 716-719. illus.

C4568. -- B2063. Williams, Harold. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle," Modern English Writers: Being a Study of Imaginative Literature, 1890-1914. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd., 1918. p. 351-352.

----------. ----------, ----------. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1919. p. 333-335.

C4569. -- A3979. Williams, J. E. Hodder. "Arthur Conan Doyle," The Bookman [London], 22, No. 127 (April 1902), 6-13. illus.

----------. ----------, The Bookman [N.Y.], 17 (August 1903) 647-651.

C4570. Wilson, Philip K. "Punch 150," PM, No. 6 (March 1992), 24.

A description of an exhibit on Punch at the Royal Festival Hall, London, in 1991 that included four items by Sir Arthur's uncle, Richard ("Dicky") Doyle (1824-1883).

C4571. Wiltshire, Paul. "Elementary, My Dear Paddy!" Herald Express [Torquay, Devon] (December 9, 1987). illus.

"Torquay man was Conan Doyle's `Watson.'" An interview with Sir Arthur's secretary, John Christopher (Paddy) O'Flanagan (81), "who still speaks with great affection of his time at Conan Doyle's Windlesham home at Crowborough in Sussex."

C4572. Wodehouse, P. G. "Grit: A Talk with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle," V.C.: Journal of the Brighter Side of Life (July 2, 1903).

An undated interview published in Victoria Cross.

C4573. Wolfe, Gerard R. The House of Appleton. Metuchen, N.J.: The Scarecrow Press, 1981. xviii, 450 p. illus.

A history of the publisher, with references to Doyle and Holmes on pages 190, 273, 276-277, 279, and 354. "In 1899 the firm brought out a twenty-volume set of Arthur Conan Doyle, among which, surprisingly, only two were Sherlock Holmes stories (The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)."

C4574. -- A3980. [Wolff, Julian.] "Deus Ex Machine," BSJ, 12, No. 3 (September 1962), 131-132. (The Editor's Gas-Lamp)

In a special Sir Arthur Conan Doyle issue of the Journal, the editor pays a long-delayed tribute to a man who was not only Watson's literary agent but a great author in his own right. A full-page photograph of Doyle appears on p. 133.

C4575. -- A3981. Wood, James Playsted. The Man Who Hated Sherlock Holmes: A Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Illustrated by Richard M. Powers. [New York: Pantheon Books, 1965.] 180 p. For ages 12 to 16.

"He has built his story around the true if paradoxical fact that Doyle resented the success of Sherlock Holmes, feeling that it took both his own creative time and the eye of the critics away from more worthy endeavors. This is an entertaining theme; and Wood develops it straightforwardly and interestingly, with a nice understanding of both the man and his work." (Anthony Boucher)

Reviews: Best Sellers, 25 (May 15, 1965), 102; Book Week (May 9, 1965), 22 (M. S. Libby); Horn Book, 41 (August 1965), 396; Library Journal, 90 (June 15, 1965), 2894 (Clayton E. Kilpatrick); New York Times Book Review (July 4, 1965), 12 (Anthony Boucher); Saturday Review, 48 (May 15, 1965), 56 (Alice Dalgliesh).

C4576. Woodall, R. D. "Sherlock Holmes Was Born in Portsmouth," Hampshire: The Country Magazine, 20, No. 12 (October 1980), 45.

A tribute to Sir Arthur on the 50th anniversary of his death.

C4577. Woolford, J. V. "Conan Doyle," British Heritage, 2, No. 1 (December-January 1980-1981), 44-55. illus.

"Sherlock Holmes led no more adventurous life than did his creator."

C4578. -- A3982. Wright, Thomas. "Dr. Conan Doyle," Hind Head, or the English Switzerland and Its Literary and Historical Associations. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd., 1898. p. 11-12.

----------. "Sir A. Conan Doyle," Hindhead, or the English Switzerland and Its Literary and Historical Associations. Second edition. [Olney, Bucks: The Cowper Press], 1907. p. 14-15.

----------. ----------, BSJ, 12, No. 3 (September 1962), 136.

A brief but interesting tribute to Doyle and Holmes.

C4579. -- B2064. Yonkers Lawn Tennis Club. Readings and Reminiscences, by Dr. A. Conan Doyle. Monday, November 12, 1894, 8:30 P.M. [San Rafael, Calif.: Theodore G. Schulz, 1972.]

----------. ----------, BSJ, 22, No. 3 (September 1972), 198.

Program of a lecture that included a reading from the Canonical tales.

C4580. -- A3984. Young, Filson. "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle," Boston Sunday Post, Magazine Section (September 6, 1914), 3-4. illus.

"The English author's intimate friend gives an intimate pen picture of Sir Arthur as a man."

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