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Adrian Conan Doyle
Son of Arthur Conan Doyle
Adrian Conan Doyle | |
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Adrian Conan Doyle with his father Sir Arthur in | |
| Born | ()19 November U.K. |
| Died | 3 June () (aged&#;59) |
| Occupation(s) | Racing driver, big-game hunter, explorer, writer |
| Spouse | Anna Andersen |
| Parents | |
Adrian Malcolm Conan Doyle (19 November &#;&#; 3 June ) was the youngest son of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his second wife Jean, Lady Doyle or Lady Conan Doyle.
He had two siblings, sister Jean Conan Doyle and brother Denis, as well as two half-siblings, sister Mary and brother Kingsley.
Adrian has been depicted as a racing car driver, big-game hunter, explorer, and writer. Biographer Andrew Lycett calls him a "spendthrift playboy" who (with his brother Denis) "used the Conan Doyle estate as a milch-cow".[1]
He married Danish-born Anna Andersen, and was his father's literary executor after his mother died in He founded the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Foundation in Switzerland in On his death, his sister Jean took over as their father's literary executor.
Additional Sherlock Holmes stories
Adrian Conan Doyle produced additional Sherlock Holmes stories, some with the assistance of John Dickson Carr. The basis of his production was to complete those tales referenced in his father's stories, which his father had never written. (Carr had published an "authorized" biography of Sir Arthur in ) These additional Sherlock Holmes tales were written in and , and a hardcover collection of the stories was published as The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes in They have been reissued subsequently, while other authors have also written Sherlock Holmes stories based on the same references within the original tales.
Discovery of unpublished Holmes story
On 12 September , the Associated Press announced that an authentic, unpublished Sherlock Holmes story had been found by Adrian Conan Doyle.
Adrian conan doyle biography of albert Oxford University Press. In Hodge, Harry ed. The New York Times. Arthur Conan Doyle.Supposedly written in his father's distinctive neat handwriting, the story was buried in a chest that contained family documents. (Actually, Jon Lellenberg reported in , the manuscript was not in Sir Arthur's handwriting but typewritten.) Sir Arthur's daughter Jean said she knew the manuscript was not written by her father.[when?] Adrian Conan Doyle refused to publish it.[when?] A month later, the Baker Street Irregulars wrote a letter to the Saturday Review of Literature, insisting that the story be published.
In the United States, Cosmopolitan magazine obtained it and published it in their August issue under the uncharacteristic title "The Case of the Man who was Wanted". It was also published in London's Sunday Dispatch magazine the following January.
Adrian conan doyle British Comedy Guide. As the audience settled, Mr. Read the Review. He married Louisa Hawkins on 6th August and they had 2 children.Sherlock Holmes expert Vincent Starrett doubted that the story was written by the elder Doyle and suggested that Adrian was the author.
In September , a letter was sent to Hesketh Pearson, one of Sir Arthur's biographers. It stated, "My pride is not unduly hurt by your remark that 'The Man who was Wanted' is certainly not up to scratch for the sting is much mitigated by your going on to remark that it carries the authentic trade-mark!
This, I feel, is a great compliment to my one and only effort at plagiarism." The letter was written by an architect named Arthur Whitaker who had sent the story to Arthur Conan Doyle in , suggesting that they publish it as a joint collaboration.
Adrian conan doyle biography of albert einstein Just then a second blast from the pipe organ drowned out the medium's voice, so that only those sitting nearby could hear. As the First World War loomed, and having been caught up in a growing public swell of Germanophobia , Doyle gave a public donation of 10 shillings to the anti-immigration British Brothers' League. Sherlock Holmes Dr. You can't!Doyle refused, but sent Whitaker a "cheque for ten guineas" in payment for the story.[2]
After seeing it attributed to Sir Arthur in the Sunday Dispatch, Whitaker wrote a letter to Denis Conan Doyle stating that he was the true author. Denis forwarded the letter to his brother Adrian, who became angry, demanded proof, and threatened legal action.
Whitaker had retained a carbon copy, and, after seeing this and listening to people who had read it in , the Doyles admitted in , that Whitaker was the author. The story that many people had accepted as the work of Sir Arthur has since been published as "The Adventure of the Sheffield Banker" in the collection The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Adrian conan doyle biography of albert hall Doyle wrote a novel The Land of Mist centred on spiritualist themes and featuring the character Professor Challenger. The second case, that of Oscar Slater —a Jew of German origin who operated a gambling den and was convicted of bludgeoning an year-old woman in Glasgow in —excited Doyle's curiosity because of inconsistencies in the prosecution's case and a general sense that Slater was not guilty. Retrieved 2 October Lymington Times, 15 SeptemberWorks about his father
Sir Arthur's widow, Jean, chose a spiritualist, the Rev. John Lamond, to write an authorised biography, Arthur Conan Doyle: A Memoir (John Murray, ). The memoir, which emphasised his paranormal interests, was not what readers wanted, so after their mother's death, Adrian and Denis grudgingly allowed Hesketh Pearson to write Conan Doyle: His Life and Art (Methuen, ).
However, Pearson's book offended Adrian and Denis by saying that the secret of their father's success was that he was the "common man". Adrian threatened criminal proceedings against Pearson's "fakeography", wrote an article in protest, and later, a book: The True Conan Doyle (John Murray, ). According to Lycett, "When the BBC commissioned an anniversary talk from Hesketh Pearson, Adrian announced that if it went ahead it would never broadcast another Sherlock Holmes story.
The Corporation caved in."[3]
Arms
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Bibliography
Sherlock Holmes stories
The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes ( collection)
(Author credits are as given in the book's table of contents.)
By Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr
By Adrian Conan Doyle
Non-Holmes works
- Heaven Has Claws (, London, John Murray)
- Tales of Love and Hate (, London, John Murray)
- The Woman Who Slew; Black Hyde; Lady Moresby's Secret; A Tooth for a Tooth; The Red Swallowtail; The Lover of the Coral Glades; The Gunman of Corpus Christi; Jungle Lore; The Pearl of Dying Boys' Reef; Johnny Death
- Lone Dhow (, London, Murray)
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