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Arthur Conan Doyle (International) assertion Arthur Conan Doyle i(A61928 works by) (a.k.a. Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle; A. Conan Doyle)
Born: Established: 22 May 1859 Edinburgh,
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Scotland,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
; Died: Ceased: 7 Jul 1930 Sussex,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,

Gender: Male
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Scottish novelist and short story writer, Arthur Conan Doyle has been 'chiefly remembered for his creation of the private detective Sherlock Holmes. Holmes first appeared (with his friend Dr Watson, the narrator of the stories) in A Study in Scarlet (1887), and featured in more than fifty stories and in novels such as The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902).

'During the last decade of his life Doyle began spending great sums of money and travelled many thousands of miles to proselytize for the Spiritualist cause'. He subsequently lectured in Australia and New Zealand (1920-1921), the United States and Canada (1922-1923), France (1925), South Africa, Rhodesia, Uganda, Tanganyika and Kenya (1928-1929), Scandinavia and Holland (1929), and England (1916-1930).

(Sources: The Oxford Dictionary of English (rev. ed.), Oxford Reference Online; Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology)

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Last amended 23 May 2014 12:05:34
Influence on:
No Place Like Holmes Paul Livingston , 2009 single work radio play
Watson on Holmes Kate Deller-Evans , 2002 single work poetry
Gaslight à Go-Go Dirk Flinthart , 2004 single work short story
Sister Holmes : The Nun in the Bar Queenie Chan , 2014 single work graphic novel
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