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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The Conan Doyle estate commissioned accomplished novelist Caleb Carr to write a Sherlock Holmes short story, and it morphed into this superb novel.
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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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.
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.
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.
Arthur Conan Doyle's stories also evoke Victorian London with its sinister fogs, a pasture for predators.
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).
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.
Yet Conan Doyle did almost as much as Dickens to establish another enduring theme of London-lit: that every character conceals a secret.
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