The British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) is best remembered as the creator of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on May 22, 1859, into an Irish Roman Catholic family of noted artistic ac...
It is difficult to imagine the shape which detective fiction might have taken had it not been for the creation by Arthur Conan Doyle of Sherlock Holmes. Conan Doyle took a form of fiction which had become popular through the works of his predecessors, Ed...
Arthur Conan Doyle is best known for his short stories and novels about Sherlock Holmes, whom Jon L. Lellenberg describes in The Quest for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Thirteen Biographies in Search of a Life (1987) as "the most universally recognized fiction...
Brigadier Gerard is the hero of a series of comic short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The hero, Etienne Gerard, is a Hussar in the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars. Gerard's most notable attribute is his vanity - he is utterly convinced that...
On Wednesday 1 May, 1971, a small but select field of six contested arguably the greatest 2,000 Guineas ever run. The strongly fancied My Swallow came with an unbeaten record; Mill Reef, the favourite, had lost only once, in a photo finish with My...
Byline: Richard Kay BRIGADIER Andrew Parker Bowles seems to have wandered into Goon Showterritory by claiming it was his great-great uncle who discovered the 'uppercrust theory'that whatever is spread on toast or bread tastes better when put in the mouthupside down. Parker...
