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...
The Poison Belt was the second novel Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about Professor Challenger. Written in 1913, roughly a year before the outbreak of World War I, much of it takes place--rather oddly, given that it follows The Lost World, a story set in...
A new biologic could save the thousands of people killed by pesticides every year. IN THE YEAR 2000, HOSPITALS IN SIX TURKISH CITIES WERE FLOODED by 2,000 students with poisoning symptoms after eating hazelnuts. Fortunately, nobody died. The nuts had been stored for...
20 years of nothin' but a good time Entertainment Editor mlong@lnpnews.com Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. By Bret Michaels' accounting, he's eminently well-versed in all three. "I think I've pegged it in all categories," said Michaels, who in...
