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From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20070923
Author:dj taylor

Meet Arthur Conan Doyle: adventurer, physician, paranormalist, Bohemian and... oh yes, writer

The Man Who Created Sherlock HolmesBy Andrew LycettWeidenfeld Pounds 20

Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letterseds Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower & Charles FoleyHarper Press Pounds 25

In an era of intellectual balancing acts, Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was one of the most dazzling tightrope-walkers of them all. Politically he was one of those sturdy late-Victorian patriots for whom the label "Liberal Unionist" might have been expressly invented. Spiritually he was a lapsed, Stonyhurst-educated ...

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