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The Red-Headed League by Arthur Conan Doyle

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Name: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir
Birth Date: May 22, 1859
Death Date: July 6, 1930
Place of Birth: Edinburgh, Scotland
Place of Death: Crowborough, Sussex, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: author, surgeon, ophthalmologist

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Biography of Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir
952 words, approx. 3.2 pages
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...
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Biography of Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir
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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...
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Biography of Arthur Conan Doyle
11405 words, approx. 38 pages
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...
 


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The Red-Headed League Information
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"The Red-Headed League" is one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle. It first appeared in the Strand in August 1891, with illustrations by Sidney Paget. Conan Doyle ranked "The Red-Headed League" second in his list of...


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ONLY THREE years separate Paul Scholes and Barry Ferguson, but yesterday England's golden boy and the great white hope of Scotland seemed a generation apart. Scholes' unruly red hair may make him look like little boy lost, yet he proved to Ferguson out on...
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RED-HEAD WITH PHOSPHORUS, 1976 Red-haired girl in a white bikini who he saw for the first time aglow on a launch moored in a Rottnest bay twenty-five years ago, inviting them up from their sailing dinghy to share the owner's champagne: as the green...


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