The Man Who Hated Sherlock Holmes by James Playsted Wood (.PDF)
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The Man Who Hated Sherlock Holmes: A Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1965) by James Playsted Wood
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Overview: A man of action, a giant of a man, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a heavyweight boxer, a top-ranking cricketer, a Rugby forward, a golfer, and a pioneer skier.
He served aboard a whaler in the Arctic, then aboard a cargo and passenger ship along the west coast of Africa, where he nearly died of tropical fever. He was a doctor who practiced successfully in the south of England, then studied in Vienna and set up as an eye surgeon in London.
He served England in three wars.
He wrote magnificent historical novels about medieval and Puritan England and about the Napoleonic wars. He wrote successful plays, books expounding his belief in spiritualism, and multivolume histories of the two wars in which he participated most actively.
And, though he sometimes regretted it, he perfected the modern detective story and created the most famous detective who ever followed a clue. So well did Sir Arthur Conan Doyle succeed in this that Sherlock Holmes and his trusted companion, Dr. John H. Watson, have very nearly thrown into shadow Conan Doyle himself and the many accomplishments he considered far more important than the infallible detective.
In this account of Conan Doyle’s extraordinary life and work, James Playsted Wood gives us a full portrait of a man as fascinating and nearly as astonishing as his own most celebrated creation, the hawk-nosed Holmes.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs
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