Rodney Stone - Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmes's Great Cases

clearly see how Conan Doyle develops the character from A Study in Scarlet to The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes . it is brilliant to finally see a book which focuses not only on the stories published in the strand Magazine but the ones that were not published or that where published by his children. I have read some of the ...

Arthur Conan Doyle in general

of my favourite authors once and realized later that almost all of them were Scottish or had Scottish ancestry: Saki, David Hume, Evelyn Waugh, Stevenson, and, of course, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. His inventiveness and range are still astonishing and though I re-read all the Sherlock Holmes stories every couple of years, I think I enjoy his short stories in other genres even more: he invented Lovecraftian monsters before Lovecraft in "The Horror of the Heights", wrote some rollickingly good blood-and-thunder stories about a pirate called Sharkey, and some very funny and affectionate stories about a dashing French hussar called Gerard. And that's not even ...

Sir Nigel - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

like Conan Doyle, the background to the story and the world in which it is set are meticulously researched and atmospherically described. He gets in his digs at the church for overtaxing the poor, victimising the vulnerable and suchlike. But don't worry about all of that, there's nothing overly deep or taxing about this novel. It's just great fun by a great author. If you like it you can read the sequel 'The White Company' (which was actually written and published prior to 'Sir Nigel'). Wordsworth classics. ...