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    Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle

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      Titles without author attribution are works by Conan Doyle.

      “Abbey Grange, The”

      Abdullah el Taashi, Khalifa

      “Absolute Proof, The”

      “Actor’s Duel, The”

      Adelphi Theater

      Admirable Crichton, The (Barrie)

      “Adventure of the Cardboard Box, The”

      “Adventure of the Empty House, The”

      “Adventure of the Priory School, The”

      “Adventure of the Three Garridebs, The”

      “Adventure of the Two Collaborators, The” (Barrie)

      Adventures of Gerard, The

      Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The

      Africa

      African Millionaire, An (Allen)

      African Steam Navigation Company

      agnosticism

      airplanes

      “Allahakbarries” (team)

      Allen, Grant

      American Weekly

      “American’s Tale, The”

      Angell, Cyril

      Angels of Darkness

      Anglo-American friendship

      Anglo-German relations

      Anson, George

      Answers (magazine)

      apocalypse

      Apparitions and Thought Transference (Podmore)

      Arctic Circle

      “Arctic Seas, The” (address)

      Arrowsmith publishing firm

      Art of Practical Whist, The (Drayson)

      Asquith, Prime Minister

      Athenaeum

      Atlantic City

      Atlantis, legend of

      Australia

      Australian High Command

      Author’s Club

      automatic (“trance”) writing

      Lady Jean Conan Doyle

      automobiles

      Baker Street

      Baker Street Journal, The

      Balfour, Arthur

      Ball, Henry

      Barrett, Sir William

      Barrie, J. M.

      on Conan Doyle

      Baskerville, Harry

      Battle of St. Quentin

      Battle of Ypres

      Bay of Biscay

      Beecher, Henry Ward

      Beerbohm, Max

      Beeton, Samuel Orchart

      Beeton’s Christmas Annual

      Belgian Congo

      Bell, Joseph

      inspiration for Sherlock Holmes

      Bells, The (Lewis)

      “Bendy’s Sermon”

      Benson, Edward F.

      Bentley and Company

      Bernhardi, General von

      Bernhardt, Sarah

      “Beryl Coronet, The”

      Besant, Annie

      Besant, Sir Walter

      Besinnet, Ada

      Besterman, Theodore

      Beyond the City

      Biggles in Africa (Johns)

      Bignell House

      Birkenhead (ship)

      “Birken’ead Drill, The” (Kipling)

      Blackmore, R. D.

      “Blanched Soldier, The”

      Blavatsky, Helena

      Bloemfontein

      Bloemfontein Ramblers’ Cricket Club

      Bloomsbury group

      “Blue Carbuncle, The”

      Blue Train Mystery, The (Christie)

      “Bluebeard of the Bath, The”

      Blumenfeld, Ralph David

      Boer War (South African War)

      Conan Doyle history of

      Boers

      Bolitho, William

      book rights

      Bookman, The

      Boot, W. H. J.

      “Boscombe Valley Mystery, The”

      boxing

      boys’ books

      Boy’s Own Paper (journal)

      Bozzano, Ernesto

      Branger, Johannes

      Branger, Tobias

      Brigadier Gerard

      Brigadier Gerard (character)

      Brigadier Gerard stories

      Bristol

      British army

      body armor for

      Boer War

      military reforms

      British Campaign in France and Flanders, The

      British College of Psychic Science

      British Journal of Photography

      British Medical Journal

      British Museum

      Brown, George Mackenzie

      Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

      “Bruce-Partington Plans, The”

      Brummell, Beau

      Buchan, John

      Buchanan, George

      Budd, George Turnavine

      Bulfin, Edward

      Burnham, Lord

      Burns, William J.

      Bush Villas

      Cairo

      Cambridge University

      Canada

      “Captain of the Pole-Star”

      Captain of the Pole-Star and Other Tales, The

      Carlyle, Thomas

      Carmar, Count

      Carnegie Hall

      Carpathia (ship)

      Carr, John Dickson

      Carrière, Eva

      Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, The

      Case for Spirit Photography, The

      “Case of Identity, A”

      “Case of Oscar Slater, The”

      Case of the Cottingley Fairies, The (Cooper)

      “Case of the Missing Lady, The” (Christie)

      Casement, Sir Roger

      “Casey at the Bat” (Thayer)

      Catholic Young Men’s Society of Great Britain

      Catholic Church

      Conan Doyle break with

      Catholicism

      Cecil, Robert

      “Chaining” (technique)

      Challenger (corvette)

      Chamberlain, Joseph

      Chambers’s Journal

      Chandler, Raymond

      Channel Tunnel (proposed)

      characterization/characters

      in episodic tales

      women

      see also Dr. Watson (character); Professor George Edward Challenger (character); Sherlock Holmes (character)

      Charteris, Francis

      Charteris, John

      Chaucer, Geoffrey

      Chesterton, G. K.

      chivalry

      Christie, Agatha

      Christie, Colonel Archibald

      Christie, Rosalind

      Christison, Sir Robert

      Christopher, Milbourne

      Churchill, Winston

      civilian rifle ranges

      Cleeve (butler)

      Clynes, J. R.

      cocaine

      Collier’s Weekly

      Collins, Sir Godfrey

      Comic Dramatists of the Restoration (Hunt)

      Coming of the Fairies, The

      Common Sense

      Conan, Michael

      Conan Doyle, Adrian Malcolm (son of CD)

      Conan Doyle, Alleyne Kingsley (son of CD)

      death of

      spirit contact

      in World War I

      Conan Doyle, Annette (sister of CD)

      death of

      Conan Doyle, Denis Percy Stewart (son of CD)

      Conan Doyle, Jean (daughter of CD)

      Conan Doyle, Lady Jean (Jean Leckie) (second wife of CD)

      automatic writing

      and Conan Doyle family

      and death of Conan Doyle

      married Conan Doyle

      mediumship

      spirit guide

      spiritualism

      trip to America

      in World War I

      Conan Doyle, Louisa Hawkins (“Touie”) (first wife of CD)

      children

      Conan Doyle’s relationship with

      death of

      illness (tuberculosis)

      trip to Egypt

      Conan Doyle, Mary (daughter of CD)

      Conan Doyle
    , Sir Arthur

      activities in World War I

      alcohol consumption

      attempt to contact after death of

      autobiography

      birthplace of

      black moods

      celibacy

      children

      death of

      early life, schooling

      employment: shipboard medical officer

      fame and wealth of

      family of

      financial affairs

      financial support for family

      health/illness

      home and family life

      internal conflicts

      joining Society for Psychical Research as turning point in life of

      knighthood

      life and work of

      marriage to Jean Leckie

      marriage to Louisa Hawkins

      medical career

      medical training

      method of work

      personal characteristics

      physical appearance

      in politics

      portrait of

      posthumous sightings of

      poverty in life of

      public speaking

      relationship with his mother

      relationships with women

      search for greater meaning in life

      spiritual crisis

      tension between material and spirit worlds

      as war correspondent

      work schedule

      “Conan Doyle: Teller of Tales” (pamphlet)

      Coney Island

      Congo Free State

      Congo Reform Association

      Congo River

      Conrad, Joseph

      Conservatives

      Cook, Florrie

      Cooper, Fenimore

      Cooper, Joe

      Copernicus

      “Copper Beeches, The”

      Copyright laws/protection

      Cornhill Magazine

      “Corporal Dick’s Promotion”

      Cottingley

      Cottingley photographs

      “Crabbe’s Practice”

      Crandon, Mina (“Margery”)

      Crawley, Geoffrey

      Craze, George

      “Creeping Man, The”

      “Crewe Circle”

      cricket

      Crime of the Congo, The

      critics

      see also reviews

      Crookes, William

      Crowborough

      Crowborough Beacon Golf Club

      Croxley Master, The

      Curnow, Leslie

      Currie, Claud

      “Curse of Eve, The”

      Daily Chronicle

      Daily Express

      Daily Mail

      Daily News

      Daily News and Leader

      Daily Telegraph

      “Danger! Being the Log of Captain John Sirius”

      Darwin, Charles

      Davenport, Ira

      Davenport, William

      Davenport Brothers

      Davos

      Davos English Ski Club

      “Decay of Lying, The” (Wilde)

      deduction

      Defoe, Daniel

      De Marbot, Baron

      dematerialization theory

      de Meyer, Milo

      Deputy-Lieutenant of Survey (honorary position)

      Desert Drama, A

      detective fiction

      Devon

      Devoy, John

      Dickens, Charles

      “Disintegration Machine, The”

      divorce law reform

      Divorce Law Reform Union

      Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Stevenson)

      Dr. Watson (character)

      creation of

      and death of Sherlock Holmes

      on drug use

      “Doctors of Hoyland, The”

      “Does Death End All?” (lecture)

      Doings of Raffles Haw, The

      Doran, George H.

      Douglas, James

      Doyle, Annette (aunt of CD)

      Doyle, Bryan Mary Julia Josephine

      Doyle, Charles Altamont (father of CD)

      alcoholism

      as artist

      death of

      exhibition of works of

      institutionalized

      Doyle, Connie (sister of CD)

      see Hornung, Connie Doyle

      Doyle, Dodo

      Doyle, Francis

      Doyle, Henry (uncle of CD)

      Doyle, Ida (sister of CD)

      Doyle, Innes (brother of CD)

      accompanied Conan Doyle to America

      army career

      Conan Doyle support of

      death of

      spirit contact

      Doyle, James (uncle of CD)

      Doyle, John (grandfather of CD)

      Doyle, Lottie (later Oldham) (sister of CD)

      caring for Louisa

      marriage

      on trip to Egypt

      Doyle, Mary Foley (“the Ma’am”) (mother of CD)

      allowance from Conan Doyle

      and Conan Doyle’s involvement in Boer War

      and Conan Doyle’s marriage

      and Conan Doyle’s knighthood

      death of

      financial support for Conan Doyle

      relationship with Conan Doyle

      relationship with Waller

      and Sherlock Holmes character

      spirit contact with

      Doyle, Michael Francis

      Doyle, Richard (uncle of CD)

      Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

      see Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur

      D’Oyly Carte, Richard

      D’Oyly Carte Opera Company

      Dracula (Stoker)

      Drayson, Major General Alfred

      Dreiser, Theodore

      Drury, Major

      du Maurier, George

      Duet with an Occasional Chorus, A

      Dumfermline Protestant Defense Organisation

      Dunninger, Joseph

      Dynamiter, The (Stevenson)

      Easter Rising

      ectoplasm

      Edalji, George, case

      Edalji, Shapurji

      Edalji Committee

      Edge of the Unknown, The

      Edinburgh

      Edinburgh Literary Institute

      Edward VII, King

      Egypt

      Eliot, T. S.

      Elmore, Colonel

      Empire News

      end of the world

      “Engineer’s Thumb, The”

      England

      military readiness

      wartime blockade of

      see also Great Britain

      “England and the Next War”

      enteric (typhoid fever)

      “Essay upon the vasometer changes in tabes dorsalis…”

      “Evidence for Fairies, The”

      Exploits of Brigadier Gerard, The

      fairies

      Fairies: The Cottingley Photographs and Their Sequel (Gardner)

      Fancher, Maude

      “Farnshire Cup, The”

      “Fate of Evangeline, The”

      Fay, Anna Eva

      Feda (spirit control)

      fiction

      and spiritualism

      “Final Problem, The”

      Fires of Fate, The (play)

      Firm of Girdlestone, The

      Fitzgerald, C. C. Penrose

      “Five Orange Pips, The”

      Forbes, Alec

      Ford, Arthur

      Ford, Ernest

      Fordoun House

      Fortnightly Review

      Fox, Katherine

      Fox, Margaretta

      Fox Tor Mire

      Francis Ferdinand, Archduke

      Frohman, Charles

      Gaboriau, Emile

      Galsworthy, John

      Gardner, Edward L.

      Garnet, Henry Highland

      Garrett, Eileen

      Gas and Water Gazette

      gelseminum

      genre fiction

      George V

      George Waterston & Sons (co.)

      Germany


      Germany and the Next War (Bernhardi)

      Gibbon, Edward

      Gibbs (surgeon)

      Gilbert, W. S.

      Gilchrist, Marion

      Gill, Thomas Patrick

      Gillette, William

      on Conan Doyle

      Gimbel, Bernard

      Gissing, George

      Gladstone, William

      Goldin, Horace

      golf

      Gondoliers, The (Gilbert and Sullivan)

      Good Words (magazine)

      Gordon, William

      Gray, John

      Great Boer War, The

      Great Britain

      Boer War

      sentiment against, in America

      Territorial Army

      “Great Britain and the Next War”

      “Great Keinplatz Experiment, The”

      Great Raymond, The

      Great Shadow, The

      Greeley, Horace

      Gresham Life Insurance Company

      Griffiths, Frances (later Frances Way)

      Grim Game, The (film)

      Grimspound

      Guiterman, Arthur

      Gurney, Edmund

      Gurrin, Thomas

      Gwynne, H. A.

      Haig, Douglas

      Hardeen, Theo

      Harding, Lyn

      Hardy, Thomas

      Harper’s New Monthly Magazine

      Harrogate Hydropathic Hotel, Yorkshire

      Harte, Bret

      Hartman, Leonard J.

      Hawkins, Jack

      Hawkins, Louisa

      see Conan Doyle, Louisa Hawkins

      Hawkins, Mrs.

      Hearst, William Randolph

      Heart of Darkness, The (Conrad)

      Held by the Enemy (Gillette)

      Heller, Carl

      Hemingway, Ernest

      Hemsley, Rosamund

      Henderson, William Hannam

      Herrmann, Adelaide

      Hilda Wade (Allen)

      Hill, J. Arthur

      Hindhead

      “His First Operation”

      “His Last Bow”

      historical detail/realism

      historical fiction

      historical novels

      critical indifference to

      history(ies)

      Boer War

      World War I

      History of England (Macaulay)

      History of Spiritualism

      Hoare, Dr. Reginald

      Hocking, Silas K.

      Hodder (school)

      Hogg, James

      Holmes, Oliver Wendell

      Home, Daniel Dunglas

      homosexuality

      Hope, Anthony

      Hope, William

      Hope (whaler)

      Hornung, Connie Doyle

      Hornung, E. W. (Willie)

      and Conan Doyle relationship with J. Leckie

      death of

      Raffles series

      Hornung, Oscar

      “Horror of the Heights, The”

      horsemanship

      Houdini, Bess

      Houdini, Harry

      death of

      “Houdini the Enigma”

      “Houdinitis”

      Hound of the Baskervilles, The

      film version of

      House of Temperley, The (play)

      How, Harry

      “How the Brigadier Slew the Fox”

      “How the Brigadier Won His Medal”

      Hubel, Ludmilla

      Hughes, Annie

      Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death (Myers)

      Hunt, Ernest

      Hunt, Leigh

      Huxley, Thomas

      “Hydesville Episode, The”

      Hylan, John F.

     


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