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Mysterious Doings

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19990516
Author:Heywood Hale Broun

TELLER OF TALES

The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle

By Daniel Stashower Henry Holt. 472 pp. $32.50 Reviewed by Heywood Hale Broun What are we to make of a man who created the most famous character in fiction, who ran a Boer War hospital through a terrible epidemic, who fought to get innocent men out of jail, and who believed, along with small children, that Tinker Bell was real and that there really were fairies at the bottom of the garden? The man, of course, is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the begetter of Sherlock Holmes, and a man who gave up creative writing in the last 20 years of his life to fight ...

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