num_pages: 380
description: Traces the life of the Scottish writer and discusses the influence of his childhood and education on his fiction writing.Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle? Yes, that was the name by which the future creator of Sherlock Holmes was baptised in Edinburgh in 1859. As Holmes would say, the discovery is in itself a trivial one, but it does symbplise that this book presents a new story and a new character. Using extensive new evidence in Edinburgh, Stonyhurst (where Arthur Conan Doyle went to school) and elsewhere, Owen Dudley Edwards shows how Conan Doyle's boyhood experiences shaped his literary attitudes and much of the genius of his writing.
language: English
title: The Quest for Sherlock Holmes: A Biographical Study of Arthur Conan Doyle
titlecomplete: The Quest for Sherlock Holmes: A Biographical Study of Arthur Conan Doyle
characters: Jim Browner, Professor Challenger, G.K. Chesterton, John Hutton Balfour, Professor George Budd, Charles Baskerville, Katherine Burton, Dr. William Budd, Rev. Francis Cassidy, Roger Casement, Arthur Budd, John Wreford Budd, John Dickson Carr, James Joyce, William K. Burton, William Blackwood, Robert Louis Stevenson, Miguel de Cervantes, Thomas Carlyle, Henry Baskerville, George Bernard Shaw, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Altamont Doyle, Arthur Conan Doyle, George Turnavine Budd, Eustace Brackenstall, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Dr. Richard Budd, John Hill Burton, Joseph Bell
genres: Biography
ratings_count: 11
places: University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
publisher: Barnes & Noble Imports