Buy this book on-line HIGHAM**, CHARLES: : The Adventures of CONAN DOYLE - The Life of the Creator of SHERLOCK HOLMESUSA,NY.NORTON,1976. ISBN 0393075079.
US,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG+/VG+.Price-clipped dw/dj.8vo,368pp includes appendix,select bibliography+index,16pp b/w illus.
Who,in real life was Sherlock Holmes? Who was Dr Watson? And who,really was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle? Higham's biography of Conan Doyle,shows that the fictional Holmes and Watson were not only based on actual counterparts,but were aspects of the creators character as well.The author solves the mystery of the true identity of Professor Moriarty,Holmes's famous adversary, by unlocking a word puzzle that remained hidden in a Doyle story for more than fifty years.He has discovered the source of the famous
'dancing men' code which so intrigued Holmes.He tells of Doyle's own solving of the disappearance of the Irish Crown jewels,the theft of the Marquis of Anglesea's gems during the performance of a Holmes play on a London stage,the murder of a rich old lady in Glasgow, and the bzarre cattle mutilations in Staffordshire.Doyle's story also one of personal adventure.It ranges from squalor of mid 19thC Edinburgh and the tragedy caused by his alcoholic father,to a London of dense fogs,his exploits in Egypt and in S.Africa during the Boer War,and his lionization by literary England and America.Ahead of his time,Doyle pioneered in the fields of bird preservation,divorce reform, pro-black legislation on the Congo,submarine defence in WW1,the developement of science-fiction and many inventions.Towards the end of his life he plunged into the world of psychic investigation.
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