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The first appeared in under the title The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. During the South African war , Doyle served for a few months as senior physician at a field hospital, and wrote The War in South Africa , in which he defended England's policy. Doyle was knighted in and in and he also ran unsuccessfully for Parliament. Fourteen months after his long-invalided wife Louisa died, Conan Doyle married in his second wife, Jean Leckie. When his son Kingsley died from wounds incurred in World War I, the author dedicated himself in spiritualistic studies.

An example of these is The Coming of Fairies But he had already shown interest in occult fantasy before publishing Holmes stories.

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In his early novel, The Mystery of Cloomber , a retired general finds himself under assault by Indian magic. Doyle supported the existence of "little people" and spent more than a million dollars on their cause. The so-called "fairy photographs" caused an international sensation, when Doyle published a favorable account of them in The photographs, taken by two schoolgirls, showed fairies dancing in the air.

A year after, the Star newspaper reported that the fairies were from a poster, but the hoax was not uncovered until the early s, when the English photographic scientist Geoffrey Crawley tested the Cottingley fairies and tenderly revealed the secret behind the two poetic pictures: the artistically gifted cousins had copied fairy illustrations from a book. In , he opened the Psychic Bookshop in London. His friends included the legendary American magician and escape artist Harry Houdini Doyle believed that Houdini possessed supernatural powers, which the magician himself denied.

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Another friend was D. According to Doyle, he could levitate. Once Doyle claimed, that Home "floated out of the bedroom and into the sitting room window, passing seventy feet above the street. Doyle died from heart disease on July 7, , at his home, Windlesham, Sussex. Conan Doyle's other publications include plays, verse, memoirs, short stories, and several historical novels and supernatural and speculative fiction. His stories of Professor George Edward Challenger in The Lost World and other adventures blended science fact with fantastic romance, and were very popular.

The model for the professor was William Rutherford, Doyle's teacher from Edinburgh. Doyle's practice, and other experiences, expeditions as ship's surgeon to the Arctic and West Coast of Africa, service in the Boer War, defenses of George Edalji and Oscar Slater, two men wrongly imprisoned, provided much material for his writings. A master of observation and deduction, he was a legend at the medical school.

Among them are O. Henry, Robert L. In Dr. Brett devoted himself entirely to the role in a television series produced by Granada TV from to The tv scripts were very faithful to original stories. Arthur Conan Doyle It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.

Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts The old stories are literature, not because of the conjuring tricks and the puzzles, not because of the lively melodrama, which they have in common with many other detective stories, but the virtue of imagination and style. They are fairy-tales, as Conan Doyle intimated in his preface to his last collection, and they are among the most amusing of fairy-tales and not among the least distinguished. For further reading : Memories and Adventures by A. Symons ; A Bibliography of A.

Tracy ; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , ed. Orel ; Baker Street Studies , ed. Yeats , who was interested in occult and magical knowledge and joined The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. In Rohmer's Dr. Osa 2 suom. Fabritius, teoksessa Sherlock Holmes'in seikkailuja. Gareth Gundrey, script Edgar Wallace and Gundrey; , dir. The Adventures of Gerard, - Napoleonin sotilaan seikkailut suom. Lea Kukkola, Timo Kukkola, Danger! Doyle, 24 vols. Evans, Stewart P. Foster, Allan. Greenberg, Martin H. Guinn, Leah and Jaime N.

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