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...Adrian Conan Doyle, younger son of the creator of Sherlock Holmes, himself set pen to paper in an attempt to settle the aging argument about the identity of Sherlock's prototype. To the London Daily Telegraph he wrote: "The fact is my father, himself, was Sherlock Holmes. It was true that Sir Arthur was absentminded and often put on one brown shoe and one black shoe, but like Sherlock Holmes the accuracy of my father's deductions was startling...
Denis Percy Stewart Conan Doyle, brother of Adrian, announced in Los Angeles that he would soon return to England, stand for election to Parliament. A spiritualist like his father, Denis also made his periodical report that he.was still chatting with Sir Arthur from time to time...
...other side and I receive frequent messages from them." Modern war's horrors and personal tragedies have turned many a grieving man & woman to spiritualism. But until Lord Dowding spoke up, there have been no such notable conversions of late as those of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sir Oliver Lodge during World War I. After his conversion, the zealous author of Sherlock Holmes toured Britain exhibiting spiritualistic snapshots in which he pointed out blurred spots that he claimed were pixies frolicking in a hazy landscape...
...SPORTING BLOOD - Edited by Ellery Queen-Little, Brown ($2.50). An anthology of short detective stories dealing with sports and hobbies, from horse racing (A. Conan Doyle's Silver Blaze) to book collecting (Dorothy L. Sayers' The Dragon's Head). There are 18 other tales by authors old & new, U.S. and English, all good examples of this difficult genre...
Died. Maurice Leblanc, 76, "the French Conan Doyle"; in Perpignan, France. Unsuccessful poet and so-so novelist, brother of Maeterlinck's friend Georgette Leblanc (TIME, Nov. 3), in 1906 he created Arsene Lupin, "Robin Hood of the drawing rooms," saw his whodunits translated into 25 languages. Working with lead pencil in an all-glass room, he confessed himself mystified by the inspiration for his plots...