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

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Johnson, Roy (1992). "Studying Fiction: A Guide and Study Programme", p. 15. Manchester University Press; ISBN 0719033977. A "Blue Carbuncle" jewel is stolen from a hotel suite, and a former felon is soon arrested. However, an acquaintance of Holmes discovers the gemstone in the throat of a Christmas goose. Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)". librarything.com. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014 . Retrieved 17 March 2012. Billiards: The Amateur Championship". The Manchester Guardian. 22 January 1913. p.8 – via ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Guardian and The Observer. Retrieved 20 September 2019.

Verbatim Report of a Public Debate on 'The Truth of Spiritualism' between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Joseph McCabe Beresiner, Yasha (2007). "Arthur Conan Doyle, Spiritualist and Freemason". Masonic papers. Pietre-Stones Review of Freemasonry. Archived from the original on 9 March 2015.

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Jon Lellenberg; Daniel Stashower; Charles Foley, eds. (2008). Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00-724760-8. In 1920, Doyle travelled to Australia and New Zealand on spiritualist missionary work, and over the next several years, until his death, he continued his mission, giving talks about his spiritualist conviction in Britain, Europe, and the United States. [84] One of the five photographs of Frances Griffiths with the alleged fairies, taken by Elsie Wright in Cottingley, England in July 1917 Murphy, Pip (2022). Of Mountains and Motors. Roberta Tedeschi, ill. Leicester: Sweet Cherry Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78226-815-4. OCLC 1295111029. If you have Audible+ look for this. When I saw that Cumming was the narrator, I knew I was going to have fun. The word “carbuncle” is rarely used in modern Britain. It did receive a boost in popularity a few decades ago when Prince Charles, in a much-quoted remark, referred to an extension to the National Gallery in London as a “monstrous carbuncle.” Online dictionaries suggest the sole meaning of the word is that of a boil or a pustule, but I have an old paper dictionary that provides an additional meaning of “red precious stone (formerly of many kinds e.g., ruby; now garnet cut in boss shape)”.

Although Doyle’s family was highly respected in the artistic world, his father, Charles, who was a lifelong alcoholic, had few accomplishments to speak of. Doyle’s mother, Mary, was a lively, well-educated woman who loved to read. As Doyle would later recall in his biography, «In my early childhood, as far as I can remember anything, the vivid stories she told me stand out so clearly as to obscure the real facts of my life». Conan Doyle's house, Undershaw, located in Hindhead, south of London, where he had lived for a decade, had been a hotel and restaurant between 1924 and 2004. It now stands empty while conservationists and Conan Doyle fans fight to preserve it. Literature". Belfast News Letter. 17 August 1892. p.7 . Retrieved 9 June 2015– via British Newspaper Archive. Dalby, Richard (March 1998). "Arthur Conan Doyle and the Paranormal". The Book and Magazine Collector. Diamond Publishing Group (168).

Doyle was a supporter of the campaign for the reform of the Congo Free State that was led by the journalist E. D. Morel and diplomat Roger Casement. In 1909 he wrote The Crime of the Congo, a long pamphlet in which he denounced the horrors of that colony. He became acquainted with Morel and Casement, and it is possible that, together with Bertram Fletcher Robinson, they inspired several characters that appear in his 1912 novel The Lost World. [75] Later, after the Irish Easter Rising, Casement was found guilty of treason against the Crown, and was sentenced to death. Doyle tried, unsuccessfully, to save him, arguing that Casement had been driven mad, and therefore should not be held responsible for his actions. [76] This Novel, set in 1888, follows Holmes and Watson as they try to find hidden treasure and a murderer. Mary Morstan asks the gentlemen for help finding her missing father, Captain Morstan, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances. She has anonymously received some pearls and a letter asking her to meet an unknown person. Mary joins Holmes and Watson in their quest. It turns out that the pearls were sent by Thaddeus Sholto, son of the late Major Sholto, one of Captain Morstan's companions during his service in the Indian Mutiny of 1857. Captain Morstan and Major Sholto had found treasure in India and were supposed to divide it, but Major Sholto killed Captain Morstan, disposed of his body, and hid the treasure.

City Museums". www.portsmouthcitymuseums.co.uk. Archived from the original on 21 March 2016 . Retrieved 15 March 2016. Janet B. Pascal (2000). Arthur Conan Doyle: Beyond Baker Street. p. 95. Oxford University Press; ISBN 0195122623. Panek, LeRoy Lad (1987). An Introduction to the Detective Story. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press. p.78. ISBN 0-87972-377-7. Mar 1, 245pm ~~ This 1893 piece by Conan Doyle is set at a time when Londoners were moving out of the city and into newly built suburb tracts. Two elderly maiden ladies have had to sell their last bit of open land, directly across from their house. Now it has been developed with three homes that will share a common tennis court. Naturally the maiden ladies peep out the window to see what type of neighbors they will be dealing with, but we mostly focus on those neighbors during the story. Written today this kind of suburban expose would most likely have to include swinging, incest, and a transgender subplot or be considered tame.

In 1889, he became a founding member of the Hampshire Society for Psychical Research; in 1893, he joined the London-based Society for Psychical Research; and in 1894, he collaborated with Sir Sidney Scott and Frank Podmore in a search for poltergeists in Devon. [84] Tillyard, Robert John (1926). "The History of Spiritualism". Nature. 118 (2961): 147–149. Bibcode: 1926Natur.118..147T. doi: 10.1038/118147a0. S2CID 4122097.