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Conan Doyle letters show love-hate link with Holmes

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From: Winnipeg Free Press
Date: 20080203
Author:Anonymous

Arthur Conan Doyle

A Life in Letters

Edited by Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower

and Charles Foley

Penguin, 706 pages, $45.50

Reviewed by Vanessa Warne

THE world's most famous detective came awfully close to being forsaken by his creator. Thankfully Arthur Conan Doyle had bills to pay.

A new collection of letters documents Conan Doyle's love-hate relationship with Sherlock Holmes, the character who made him both wealthy and well-known more than 100 years ago in England.

Frustrated with a type of writing he viewed as trivial, Conan Doyle writes bluntly about the creation, temporary shelving ...

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