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Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle

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by Daniel Stashower


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  Titles without author attribution are works by Conan Doyle.

  “Abbey Grange, The”

  Abdullah el Taashi, Khalifa

  “Absolute Proof, The”

  “Actor’s Duel, The”

  Adelphi Theater

  Admirable Crichton, The (Barrie)

  “Adventure of the Cardboard Box, The”

  “Adventure of the Empty House, The”

  “Adventure of the Priory School, The”

  “Adventure of the Three Garridebs, The”

  “Adventure of the Two Collaborators, The” (Barrie)

  Adventures of Gerard, The

  Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The

  Africa

  African Millionaire, An (Allen)

  African Steam Navigation Company

  agnosticism

  airplanes

  “Allahakbarries” (team)

  Allen, Grant

  American Weekly

  “American’s Tale, The”

  Angell, Cyril

  Angels of Darkness

  Anglo-American friendship

  Anglo-German relations

  Anson, George

  Answers (magazine)

  apocalypse

  Apparitions and Thought Transference (Podmore)

  Arctic Circle

  “Arctic Seas, The” (address)

  Arrowsmith publishing firm

  Art of Practical Whist, The (Drayson)

  Asquith, Prime Minister

  Athenaeum

  Atlantic City

  Atlantis, legend of

  Australia

  Australian High Command

  Author’s Club

  automatic (“trance”) writing

  Lady Jean Conan Doyle

  automobiles

  Baker Street

  Baker Street Journal, The

  Balfour, Arthur

  Ball, Henry

  Barrett, Sir William

  Barrie, J. M.

  on Conan Doyle

  Baskerville, Harry

  Battle of St. Quentin

  Battle of Ypres

  Bay of Biscay

  Beecher, Henry Ward

  Beerbohm, Max

  Beeton, Samuel Orchart

  Beeton’s Christmas Annual

  Belgian Congo

  Bell, Joseph

  inspiration for Sherlock Holmes

  Bells, The (Lewis)

  “Bendy’s Sermon”

  Benson, Edward F.

  Bentley and Company

  Bernhardi, General von

  Bernhardt, Sarah

  “Beryl Coronet, The”

  Besant, Annie

  Besant, Sir Walter

  Besinnet, Ada

  Besterman, Theodore

  Beyond the City

  Biggles in Africa (Johns)

  Bignell House

  Birkenhead (ship)

  “Birken’ead Drill, The” (Kipling)

  Blackmore, R. D.

  “Blanched Soldier, The”

  Blavatsky, Helena

  Bloemfontein

  Bloemfontein Ramblers’ Cricket Club

  Bloomsbury group

  “Blue Carbuncle, The”

  Blue Train Mystery, The (Christie)

  “Bluebeard of the Bath, The”

  Blumenfeld, Ralph David

  Boer War (South African War)

  Conan Doyle history of

  Boers

  Bolitho, William

  book rights

  Bookman, The

  Boot, W. H. J.

  “Boscombe Valley Mystery, The”

  boxing

  boys’ books

  Boy’s Own Paper (journal)

  Bozzano, Ernesto

  Branger, Johannes

  Branger, Tobias

  Brigadier Gerard

  Brigadier Gerard (character)

  Brigadier Gerard stories

  Bristol

  British army

  body armor for

  Boer War

  military reforms

  British Campaign in France and Flanders, The

  British College of Psychic Science

  British Journal of Photography

  British Medical Journal

  British Museum

  Brown, George Mackenzie

  Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

  “Bruce-Partington Plans, The”

  Brummell, Beau

  Buchan, John

  Buchanan, George

  Budd, George Turnavine

  Bulfin, Edward

  Burnham, Lord

  Burns, William J.

  Bush Villas

  Cairo

  Cambridge University

  Canada

  “Captain of the Pole-Star”

  Captain of the Pole-Star and Other Tales, The

  Carlyle, Thomas

  Carmar, Count

  Carnegie Hall

  Carpathia (ship)

  Carr, John Dickson

  Carrière, Eva

  Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, The

  Case for Spirit Photography, The

  “Case of Identity, A”

  “Case of Oscar Slater, The”

  Case of the Cottingley Fairies, The (Cooper)

  “Case of the Missing Lady, The” (Christie)

  Casement, Sir Roger

  “Casey at the Bat” (Thayer)

  Catholic Young Men’s Society of Great Britain

  Catholic Church

  Conan Doyle break with

  Catholicism

  Cecil, Robert

  “Chaining” (technique)

  Challenger (corvette)

  Chamberlain, Joseph

  Chambers’s Journal

  Chandler, Raymond

  Channel Tunnel (proposed)

  characterization/characters

  in episodic tales

  women

  see also Dr. Watson (character); Professor George Edward Challenger (character); Sherlock Holmes (character)

  Charteris, Francis

  Charteris, John

  Chaucer, Geoffrey

  Chesterton, G. K.

  chivalry

  Christie, Agatha

  Christie, Colonel Archibald

  Christie, Rosalind

  Christison, Sir Robert

  Christopher, Milbourne

  Churchill, Winston

  civilian rifle ranges

  Cleeve (butler)

  Clynes, J. R.

  cocaine

  Collier’s Weekly

  Collins, Sir Godfrey

  Comic Dramatists of the Restoration (Hunt)

  Coming of the Fairies, The

  Common Sense

  Conan, Michael

  Conan Doyle, Adrian Malcolm (son of CD)

  Conan Doyle, Alleyne Kingsley (son of CD)

  death of

  spirit contact

  in World War I

  Conan Doyle, Annette (sister of CD)

  death of

  Conan Doyle, Denis Percy Stewart (son of CD)

  Conan Doyle, Jean (daughter of CD)

  Conan Doyle, Lady Jean (Jean Leckie) (second wife of CD)

  automatic writing

  and Conan Doyle family

  and death of Conan Doyle

  married Conan Doyle

  mediumship

  spirit guide

  spiritualism

  trip to America

  in World War I

  Conan Doyle, Louisa Hawkins (“Touie”) (first wife of CD)

  children

  Conan Doyle’s relationship with

  death of

  illness (tuberculosis)

  trip to Egypt

  Conan Doyle, Mary (daughter of CD)

  Conan Doyle
, Sir Arthur

  activities in World War I

  alcohol consumption

  attempt to contact after death of

  autobiography

  birthplace of

  black moods

  celibacy

  children

  death of

  early life, schooling

  employment: shipboard medical officer

  fame and wealth of

  family of

  financial affairs

  financial support for family

  health/illness

  home and family life

  internal conflicts

  joining Society for Psychical Research as turning point in life of

  knighthood

  life and work of

  marriage to Jean Leckie

  marriage to Louisa Hawkins

  medical career

  medical training

  method of work

  personal characteristics

  physical appearance

  in politics

  portrait of

  posthumous sightings of

  poverty in life of

  public speaking

  relationship with his mother

  relationships with women

  search for greater meaning in life

  spiritual crisis

  tension between material and spirit worlds

  as war correspondent

  work schedule

  “Conan Doyle: Teller of Tales” (pamphlet)

  Coney Island

  Congo Free State

  Congo Reform Association

  Congo River

  Conrad, Joseph

  Conservatives

  Cook, Florrie

  Cooper, Fenimore

  Cooper, Joe

  Copernicus

  “Copper Beeches, The”

  Copyright laws/protection

  Cornhill Magazine

  “Corporal Dick’s Promotion”

  Cottingley

  Cottingley photographs

  “Crabbe’s Practice”

  Crandon, Mina (“Margery”)

  Crawley, Geoffrey

  Craze, George

  “Creeping Man, The”

  “Crewe Circle”

  cricket

  Crime of the Congo, The

  critics

  see also reviews

  Crookes, William

  Crowborough

  Crowborough Beacon Golf Club

  Croxley Master, The

  Curnow, Leslie

  Currie, Claud

  “Curse of Eve, The”

  Daily Chronicle

  Daily Express

  Daily Mail

  Daily News

  Daily News and Leader

  Daily Telegraph

  “Danger! Being the Log of Captain John Sirius”

  Darwin, Charles

  Davenport, Ira

  Davenport, William

  Davenport Brothers

  Davos

  Davos English Ski Club

  “Decay of Lying, The” (Wilde)

  deduction

  Defoe, Daniel

  De Marbot, Baron

  dematerialization theory

  de Meyer, Milo

  Deputy-Lieutenant of Survey (honorary position)

  Desert Drama, A

  detective fiction

  Devon

  Devoy, John

  Dickens, Charles

  “Disintegration Machine, The”

  divorce law reform

  Divorce Law Reform Union

  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Stevenson)

  Dr. Watson (character)

  creation of

  and death of Sherlock Holmes

  on drug use

  “Doctors of Hoyland, The”

  “Does Death End All?” (lecture)

  Doings of Raffles Haw, The

  Doran, George H.

  Douglas, James

  Doyle, Annette (aunt of CD)

  Doyle, Bryan Mary Julia Josephine

  Doyle, Charles Altamont (father of CD)

  alcoholism

  as artist

  death of

  exhibition of works of

  institutionalized

  Doyle, Connie (sister of CD)

  see Hornung, Connie Doyle

  Doyle, Dodo

  Doyle, Francis

  Doyle, Henry (uncle of CD)

  Doyle, Ida (sister of CD)

  Doyle, Innes (brother of CD)

  accompanied Conan Doyle to America

  army career

  Conan Doyle support of

  death of

  spirit contact

  Doyle, James (uncle of CD)

  Doyle, John (grandfather of CD)

  Doyle, Lottie (later Oldham) (sister of CD)

  caring for Louisa

  marriage

  on trip to Egypt

  Doyle, Mary Foley (“the Ma’am”) (mother of CD)

  allowance from Conan Doyle

  and Conan Doyle’s involvement in Boer War

  and Conan Doyle’s marriage

  and Conan Doyle’s knighthood

  death of

  financial support for Conan Doyle

  relationship with Conan Doyle

  relationship with Waller

  and Sherlock Holmes character

  spirit contact with

  Doyle, Michael Francis

  Doyle, Richard (uncle of CD)

  Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

  see Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur

  D’Oyly Carte, Richard

  D’Oyly Carte Opera Company

  Dracula (Stoker)

  Drayson, Major General Alfred

  Dreiser, Theodore

  Drury, Major

  du Maurier, George

  Duet with an Occasional Chorus, A

  Dumfermline Protestant Defense Organisation

  Dunninger, Joseph

  Dynamiter, The (Stevenson)

  Easter Rising

  ectoplasm

  Edalji, George, case

  Edalji, Shapurji

  Edalji Committee

  Edge of the Unknown, The

  Edinburgh

  Edinburgh Literary Institute

  Edward VII, King

  Egypt

  Eliot, T. S.

  Elmore, Colonel

  Empire News

  end of the world

  “Engineer’s Thumb, The”

  England

  military readiness

  wartime blockade of

  see also Great Britain

  “England and the Next War”

  enteric (typhoid fever)

  “Essay upon the vasometer changes in tabes dorsalis…”

  “Evidence for Fairies, The”

  Exploits of Brigadier Gerard, The

  fairies

  Fairies: The Cottingley Photographs and Their Sequel (Gardner)

  Fancher, Maude

  “Farnshire Cup, The”

  “Fate of Evangeline, The”

  Fay, Anna Eva

  Feda (spirit control)

  fiction

  and spiritualism

  “Final Problem, The”

  Fires of Fate, The (play)

  Firm of Girdlestone, The

  Fitzgerald, C. C. Penrose

  “Five Orange Pips, The”

  Forbes, Alec

  Ford, Arthur

  Ford, Ernest

  Fordoun House

  Fortnightly Review

  Fox, Katherine

  Fox, Margaretta

  Fox Tor Mire

  Francis Ferdinand, Archduke

  Frohman, Charles

  Gaboriau, Emile

  Galsworthy, John

  Gardner, Edward L.

  Garnet, Henry Highland

  Garrett, Eileen

  Gas and Water Gazette

  gelseminum

  genre fiction

  George V

  George Waterston & Sons (co.)

  Germany


  Germany and the Next War (Bernhardi)

  Gibbon, Edward

  Gibbs (surgeon)

  Gilbert, W. S.

  Gilchrist, Marion

  Gill, Thomas Patrick

  Gillette, William

  on Conan Doyle

  Gimbel, Bernard

  Gissing, George

  Gladstone, William

  Goldin, Horace

  golf

  Gondoliers, The (Gilbert and Sullivan)

  Good Words (magazine)

  Gordon, William

  Gray, John

  Great Boer War, The

  Great Britain

  Boer War

  sentiment against, in America

  Territorial Army

  “Great Britain and the Next War”

  “Great Keinplatz Experiment, The”

  Great Raymond, The

  Great Shadow, The

  Greeley, Horace

  Gresham Life Insurance Company

  Griffiths, Frances (later Frances Way)

  Grim Game, The (film)

  Grimspound

  Guiterman, Arthur

  Gurney, Edmund

  Gurrin, Thomas

  Gwynne, H. A.

  Haig, Douglas

  Hardeen, Theo

  Harding, Lyn

  Hardy, Thomas

  Harper’s New Monthly Magazine

  Harrogate Hydropathic Hotel, Yorkshire

  Harte, Bret

  Hartman, Leonard J.

  Hawkins, Jack

  Hawkins, Louisa

  see Conan Doyle, Louisa Hawkins

  Hawkins, Mrs.

  Hearst, William Randolph

  Heart of Darkness, The (Conrad)

  Held by the Enemy (Gillette)

  Heller, Carl

  Hemingway, Ernest

  Hemsley, Rosamund

  Henderson, William Hannam

  Herrmann, Adelaide

  Hilda Wade (Allen)

  Hill, J. Arthur

  Hindhead

  “His First Operation”

  “His Last Bow”

  historical detail/realism

  historical fiction

  historical novels

  critical indifference to

  history(ies)

  Boer War

  World War I

  History of England (Macaulay)

  History of Spiritualism

  Hoare, Dr. Reginald

  Hocking, Silas K.

  Hodder (school)

  Hogg, James

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell

  Home, Daniel Dunglas

  homosexuality

  Hope, Anthony

  Hope, William

  Hope (whaler)

  Hornung, Connie Doyle

  Hornung, E. W. (Willie)

  and Conan Doyle relationship with J. Leckie

  death of

  Raffles series

  Hornung, Oscar

  “Horror of the Heights, The”

  horsemanship

  Houdini, Bess

  Houdini, Harry

  death of

  “Houdini the Enigma”

  “Houdinitis”

  Hound of the Baskervilles, The

  film version of

  House of Temperley, The (play)

  How, Harry

  “How the Brigadier Slew the Fox”

  “How the Brigadier Won His Medal”

  Hubel, Ludmilla

  Hughes, Annie

  Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death (Myers)

  Hunt, Ernest

  Hunt, Leigh

  Huxley, Thomas

  “Hydesville Episode, The”

  Hylan, John F.

 

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