Arthur Conan Doyle's stories also evoke Victorian London with its sinister fogs, a pasture for predators.
It inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous Sherlock Holmes mystery, The Hound of the Baskervilles.
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The collection includes letters from David Lloyd George, William Gladstone, Rudyard Kipling, George Bernard Shaw and Arthur Conan Doyle.
Jonny Branch placed third in the Conan Doyle at 900 yards, after a tie-shoot between Branch and three others.
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The British writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle dubbed this place "The Lost World".
David Lloyd George, William Gladstone, Rudyard Kipling, George Bernard Shaw, Arthur Conan Doyle and Darwin himself are on the list.
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The Grade II-listed property, built in Hindhead in 1897, was the house where Conan Doyle wrote The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Yet Conan Doyle did almost as much as Dickens to establish another enduring theme of London-lit: that every character conceals a secret.
The Conan Doyle estate commissioned accomplished novelist Caleb Carr to write a Sherlock Holmes short story, and it morphed into this superb novel.
The great merit of "The House of Silk" is the enormous debt that Mr. Horowitz clearly thinks he owes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
In his humble, professional storyteller's way, Conan Doyle fashioned something that an industrialist's marketing manager has always struggled to create: the everlasting brand.
Over the years, a suitably big brace of royals, writers and statesmen dined here (Edward without Mrs Simpson, Arthur Conan Doyle, W B Yeats).
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But the former retained the glory with the help of a journalist who had been covering the race, the famous author of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
After Arthur Conan Doyle killed off Sherlock Holmes, sending him hurtling over a waterfall, Holmes fans sent the author threatening letters and took to the streets in black arm bands.
Carnegie was outbid on a limited-edition series of jazz recordings signed by impresario Norman Granz and outbid twice on a flier heralding a lecture on spiritualism by Arthur Conan Doyle.
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But the practice is based not on the brainchild of any university professor or crime expert, but in fiction - the character of Sherlock Holmes, created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Whipped up by Charles Darwin's new perspective on life and by visions of lost worlds conjured up by Jules Verne and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, that was an age of discovery.
Its scribes included Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle and Winston Churchill (who first rose to minor fame by escaping from a prisoner-of-war camp on the day before he was to have been released).
And nor is he against everything Western: he is a fan of Sherlock Holmes (a character created by another former doctor, Arthur Conan Doyle) and his talent for making deductions from small observations.
Munster suffered a blow when Warwick was caught in the face by a stray leg and with no Ronan O'Gara on the bench had to turn to Conan Doyle, an elementary replacement at fly-half.
He and three friends noticed a photograph of Arthur Conan Doyle in a local pub and, thinking it sad the area was not more celebrated for the famous connection, set up a small group to rectify matters.
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Since 2000, Rebustours has offered two-hour guided walking tours that start at Rebus' favorite pub, the Royal Oak, and incorporate readings from the Rebus novels plus mentions of other local writers, Arthur Conan Doyle and Robert Lewis Stevenson among them.
If the parent who complained about A Study in Scarlet had asked that it be taught as part of an interdisciplinary curriculum that points out where Conan Doyle exaggerated for dramatic effect while acknowledging the realities of early Mormon history, I might have been sympathetic.
Tales of headless horsemen stalking ancient burial sites, gruesome hairy hands forcing vehicles off the road and a visit from the devil himself have given Dartmoor a doomladen reputation, making it a favourite setting for writers such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie.
In a revealing aside on the infamous Cottingley fairy photographs, taken by two young girls (one of whom worked in a photographer's shop retouching prints), she suggests that it may well have been the literal-minded rationalism of Conan Doyle and his ilk that was the problem.
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