Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a Scottish physician and writer, most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works include fantasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels.
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... Arthur Conan Doyle rarely gave interviews or publicly discussed his character ... However, the following is a list of Conan Doyle essays and interviews on his character which are currently in publication, either in Green or Haining's book or in ... It is an interview which is given by Doyle during the great hiatus, and mentions inklings to write more Holmes adventures ...
... Sherlock is a British television crime drama that presents a contemporary update of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes detective stories ... They aspired to produce a modern-day version of Conan Doyle's stories in which Sherlock uses the technologies that are available to him today in order to help him solve crimes ... released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc in the United Kingdom, alongside tie-in editions of some of Conan Doyle's original books ...
... He is the editor of The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, a three book edition of all of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes fiction with extensive annotations, "hailed as the definitive exegesis of Holmes and his times ... In February 2013, Klinger filed a lawsuit against the Conan Doyle Estate, who demanded a hefty license fee for the use of the Sherlock Holmes characters in a collection of stories ... of Sherlock Holmes in the United States, since only ten of Conan Doyle's sixty stories are still under copyright and the definitive story elements (such as Holmes's bohemian habits, deductive reasoning and many ...
... Gaboriau influenced later detective fiction writers, notably Conan Doyle, who acknowledged his debt to Gaboriau ... Conan Doyle wrote, ‘Gaboriau had rather attracted me by the neat dovetailing of his plots, and Poe’s masterful detective, M ... But could I bring an addition of my own?’ Conan Doyle also uses Gaboriau’s two-part structure for two of the four longer Sherlock Holmes stories ...
... Conan Doyle was found clutching his chest in the hall of Windlesham Manor, his house in Crowborough, East Sussex, on 7 July 1930 ... That inscription reads, "Blade straight / Steel true / Arthur Conan Doyle / Born May 22nd 1859 / Passed On 7th July 1930." The epitaph on his gravestone in the churchyard reads, in part "Steel true/Blade straight/Ar ... Undershaw, the home near Hindhead, Haslemere, south of London, that Arthur Conan Doyle had built and lived in between October 1897 and September 1907, was a hotel and restaurant from 1924 until 2004 ...
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“‘What have I gained?’
‘Experience,’ said Holmes, laughing. ‘Indirectly it may be of value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your existence.’”
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)
“Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.”
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)
“Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.”
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)
“My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.”
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)
“The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.”
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)