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unusual facts about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Heart of the Storm

"Heart of the Storm" is the final episode of the television series Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World.


A Catalogue of Crime

Included are, of course, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself, the originator of Holmes and the author of the 60 Holmes stories (56 short stories and four novelas).

Bernadette Pajer

Pajer's Bradshaw applies his knowledge of the new science of electrical engineering to solve murders in novels that resonate with the classic style of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Edgar Alan Poe.

Distant Waves

It is there that it is proven that the twins, Amelie and Emma, have their mother's gift of being able to speak to the dead after having Queen Victoria speak to Conan Doyle.

Forensic geology

According to Murray, forensic geology began with acclaimed Sherlock Holmes writer, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Frequency analysis

Edgar Allan Poe's "The Gold-Bug", and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes tale "The Adventure of the Dancing Men" are examples of stories which describe the use of frequency analysis to attack simple substitution ciphers.

Gus: The Theatre Cat

The description in the original poem about Gus playing a "Tiger... which an Indian Colonel pursued down a drain" is a reference to the short story The Adventure of the Empty House by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Jason Dark

His fertile and inventive imagination has been favourably compared to that of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Ludu U Hla

An old school friend of Daw Amar's father, he was famous for his excellent adaptations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Brigadier Gerard as well as his translations of H. Rider Haggard's Alan Quartermain novels and was arrested at the same time as U Hla but he was to remain in Mandalay Prison for the duration.

Meiringen

The town is famous for the nearby Reichenbach Falls, a spectacular waterfall that was the setting for the fictional presumed death of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's character Sherlock Holmes.

Moidore

In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of the Four, Small wonders "how my folk would stare when they saw their ne'er-do-well coming back with his pockets full of gold moidores" when justifying his decision to help end Achmet's life for the treasure he carried.

Neil Loring

The central character in two historical novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Nigel and The White Company, is loosely based on Neil Loring.

The central character of Sir Nigel Loring in two historical novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – Sir Nigel and The White Company – is loosely based on Neil Loring.

News Chronicle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – war correspondent for the Daily Chronicle during World War I

Ribston Pippin

And in one Sherlock Holmes story (The Adventure of Black Peter in The Return of Sherlock Holmes) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle an incidental character is described as a "a little Ribston pippin of a man, with ruddy cheeks and fluffy side-whiskers".

Sherlock Holmes in Washington

The plot is an original story not based on any of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmes tales, though it bears some similarity to "The Bruce-Partington Plans." Oscar Homolka was originally cast as Holmes's elder brother Mycroft, but for family reasons he refused and Mycroft's character was replaced by "Mr. Ahrens" played by Holmes Herbert.

The Library of St. John the Beheaded

The Library is located in Holborn between the Church of St Giles, London and the Seven Dials district, which was also used as a setting for crime stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie as it was one of London’s ancient ‘rookeries’, tightly packed slums of poverty and lawlessness.

The Real Lost World

The Real Lost World is a documentary, released on December 10, 2006 by Animal Planet, where a team of scientists journey to Monte Roraima in Venezuela, the plateau that inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's literary work, The Lost World.

Youghal

According to "An A to Z of Youghal: The history and people of Eochaill," Sir Arthur Conan Doyle vacationed in Youghal with his wife and created the character of Inspector Youghal of the C.I.D. for The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone.


see also

John Horner

John Horner, a fictional character in The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, a Sherlock Holmes story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

John Straker

John Straker, a fictional character in Silver Blaze, a Sherlock Holmes story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Joseph Harrison

Joseph Harrison, a fictional character in The Adventure of the Naval Treaty, a Sherlock Holmes story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Langdale Pike

Langdale Pike, a fictional character in The Adventure of the Three Gables, a Sherlock Holmes story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Leslie Armstrong

Dr Leslie Armstrong, a fictional character in The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter, a Sherlock Holmes story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Peter Carey

"Black Peter" Carey, a fictional character in The Adventure of Black Peter, a Sherlock Holmes story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Richard Brunton

A character in The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual, a Sherlock Holmes story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Robert Ferguson

A fictional character in The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire, a 1924 Sherlock Holmes story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Sign of Four

The Sign of the Four, a novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes

Trevor Bennett

A fictional character in The Adventure of the Creeping Man, a Sherlock Holmes story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

William Kirwan

William Kirwan, a fictional character in The Adventure of the Reigate Squire, a Sherlock Holmes story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Wisteria Lodge

"The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge", a 1908 short story featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Young Sherlock Holmes: Death Cloud

Based on the success of Charlie Higson's bestselling Young Bond series, the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle authorised a series of books detailing the life of the teenage Sherlock Holmes.