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From: Contemporary Review
Date: 19960301
Author:Whittington-Egan, Richard

Discount Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle's two semi-autobiographical works - The Firm of Girdlestone (1890) and The Stark-Munro Letters (1895) - and his actual autobiography, Memories and Adventures (1924), and there have been thirteen biographical accounts published in the last sixty-four years.

The earliest was John Lamond's Arthur Conan Doyle: A Memoir (1931), which was the first to appear after Doyle's death on July 7th, 1930. This was followed, in 1943, By Conan Doyle: His Life and Art by Hesketh Pearson, which still remains probably the best, and certainly the most readable, of ...

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