70. ACDQ&A

This episode, we answer questions on many aspects of Arthur Conan Doyle’s life and work, submitted by listeners and patrons. Thanks to everyone who sent in their questions to test us!

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Essential Reference Works

Our top picks:

·        Arthur Conan Doyle, Memories and Adventures (1924) - interview with Douglas Kerr on Episode 30

·        Arthur Conan Doyle, Through the Magic Door (1907)

·        Richard Lancelyn Green and John Michael Gibson, A Bibliography of A. Conan Doyle (1983)

·        Brian Pugh, A Chronology of the Life of Arthur Conan Doyle (2009 onwards)

·        Richard Lancelyn Green (ed), The Uncollected Sherlock Holmes (1982)

·        Michael Dirda, On Conan Doyle (2011)

·        Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower, Charles Foley, Conan Doyle – A Life in Letters (2007)

·        Sarah Le Fanu, Something of Themselves (2020) - interviewed on Episode 42

·        Mattias Boström, From Holmes to Sherlock (2017)

·        Michael and Mollie Hardwick, The Sherlock Holmes Companion (1978)

·        Leslie Klinger, The Sherlock Holmes Reference Library (1998-2002)

·        Alexis Barquin (ed), The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopaedia (online) - available here

Essential Biographies

Our must-reads:

·        Owen Dudley Edwards, The Quest for Sherlock Holmes (1982)

·        Andrew Lycett, Conan Doyle – The Man who Created Sherlock Holmes (2007)

·        Pierre Nordon, Conan Doyle – A Biography (1966)

·        John Dickson Carr, The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1949)

·        Daniel Stashower, Teller of Tales – The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1999)

·        John Lomond, Arthur Conan Doyle – A Memoir (1931)

Next time on Doings of Doyle

We return to Conan Doyle’s fiction and his fascinating short story ‘The Three Correspondents’ (1896) which reflects on his days in the Sudan in the 1890s.

You can read the story here: arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Three_Correspondents 

Acknowledgements

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