The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Original 1892 Collection of Short Stories

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Compulsory Vaccination – The Hampshire County Times – The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia". www.arthur-conan-doyle.com. Saturday Playhouse: Conan Doyle's Strangest Case". BBC Genome: Radio Times. BBC. 14 January 1995 . Retrieved 10 November 2020. Although Doyle’s family was highly respected in the artistic world, his father, Charles, who was a lifelong alcoholic, had few accomplishments to speak of. Doyle’s mother, Mary, was a lively, well-educated woman who loved to read. As Doyle would later recall in his biography, «In my early childhood, as far as I can remember anything, the vivid stories she told me stand out so clearly as to obscure the real facts of my life». Doyle was a prolific writer; other than Holmes stories, his works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger, and humorous stories about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels. One of Doyle's early short stories, " J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" (1884), helped to popularise the mystery of the Mary Celeste. The word “carbuncle” is rarely used in modern Britain. It did receive a boost in popularity a few decades ago when Prince Charles, in a much-quoted remark, referred to an extension to the National Gallery in London as a “monstrous carbuncle.” Online dictionaries suggest the sole meaning of the word is that of a boil or a pustule, but I have an old paper dictionary that provides an additional meaning of “red precious stone (formerly of many kinds e.g., ruby; now garnet cut in boss shape)”.

Jabez Wilson, a pawnbroker, consults Holmes about a job which he gained only because of his red hair. Donkin, Bryan (1926). "Science and Psychical Research". Nature. 118 (2970): 480. Bibcode: 1926Natur.118Q.480D. doi: 10.1038/118480a0. S2CID 4125188.Wijesinha, Rajiva (2013). Twentieth Century Classics: Reflections on Writers and Their Times. Cambridge University Press.

Doyle had a longstanding interest in mystical subjects and remained fascinated by the idea of paranormal phenomena, even though the strength of his belief in their reality waxed and waned periodically over the years. As with the case of the Boscombe Valley Mystery Holmes shows an indifference to the judicial system, allowing a criminal once again to escape justice. The criminal in this case though, is arguably, less deserving of the leniency offered by the consulting detective. And who are these neighbors? A retired Royal Navy Admiral with his wife and their son, who has a place on the 'Change in the city. A retired doctor with his two daughters who have handled his household since their mother died. And the latest arrivals? A thoroughly modern woman with her nephew. Charles has no career and does not really know what to do with his life, but she has Causes, the main one being Women's Rights.

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Eugen Sandow: Bodybuilding's Great Pioneer". 25 March 2010. Archived from the original on 25 March 2010 . Retrieved 17 November 2020. There are countless film adaptations, both silent and feature films, of Arthur Conan Doyle’s books. However, most of them are non-canonical and not direct adaptations. Short stories aside, these are the canonical adaptations. A Cat of Feral Instincts ( With: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Edgar Allan Poe, Brigid Collins, Dean Wesley Smith, Pamela Sargent, Jamie McNabb, Mary Turzillo, N. Margaret Campbell) A Cat of Heroic Heart ( By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Carole Nelson Douglas, E. Nesbit, Jamie Ferguson, Lisa Silverthorne, Stefon Mears, Dean Wesley Smith, Liz Pierce) Massimo Polidoro. (2001). Final Séance: The Strange Friendship Between Houdini and Conan Doyle. Prometheus Books. p.67. ISBN 978-1-57392-896-0.