Conan Doyle

/ ˈkəʊnən ˈdɔɪl; ˈkɒnən /

noun

1. Conan DoyleSir Arthur18591930MBritishWRITING: crime writerWRITING: novelist Sir Arthur. 1859–1930, British author of detective stories and historical romances and the creator of Sherlock Holmes

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Conan Doyle eventually left medicine and created Sherlock Holmes, a character who brought science to the masses.

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Two physicians—Robert Koch and Arthur Conan Doyle—changed that.

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I was fascinated and horrified by the hospital scenes in the book, when Conan Doyle is visiting people treated with tuberculin.

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Without Arthur Conan Doyle making him solve everything with ease, does his reasoning stand up to reasoning today.

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Thompson is a master of voice—there are take-offs of both Raymond Chandler and Arthur Conan Doyle—as well as imagined geography.

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Sherlock Holmes is the hero of the famous detective stories of Conan Doyle.

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Sir A. Conan Doyle is asserted to have taken it 'for granted that these photographs are real and genuine.'

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As an author Conan Doyle has a wonderful gift of narrative, unusual imagination, fine constructive powers, and an effective style.

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle feels that death has not robbed him of his son's companionship.

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This is one of the new and artistic style of detective stories, somewhat in the vein of Conan Doyle.

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