Doyle, Arthur Conan

Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Complete Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes. Castle Books, Secaucus. 1977. 

Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Valley of Fear. Book-of-the-Month Club, New York. 1994. 

Extrapolating from prior examples of group formation to future possibilities is a deductive process, and so it is perhaps not so unusual to bring Arthur Conan Doyle s Sherlock Holmes into the discussion. As devoted readers will testify, Conan Doyle s stories are filled with physical details, particularly those relating to the persons and behaviors of his characters. Some of those physical traits are immediately observable to other characters in the stories, whereas other physical traits are apparent only after their logical relation to human actions are made evident by Holmes. 

Booth, M., The Doctor and the Detective A Biography of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. New York St. Martin s (2000). 

Agatha Christie s murder mysteries Alphabet series (A is for Alibi) by Sue Grafton The Client by John Grisham Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Shining by Stephen King Watcher by Dean R. Koontz... 

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, of all people, was completely taken in. The creator of Sherlock Holmes, the most logical and scientific of fictional detectives, was a firm believer in spiritualism, in spite of the fact that he was a physician by training and took great pride in his powers of observation. One day, while on rounds at an Edinburgh hospital, he stopped to examine a sick baby. He then told the child s mother that she must stop painting the baby s crib. When the startled lady asked him how... 

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle went to his grave believing in fairies and spirits. One wonders what he would have said if he had known that Princess Mary s Gift Book, published two years prior to the Cottingley fairy episode, featured fairy pictures identical to the photos that had so enthralled him. Perhaps we should enlist James van Praagh to find out — after all, he talks to the dead. But I m not sure we would get an answer. For, as Houdini himself said, anyone can talk to the dead. The problem is that the dead don t talk back. 

Then in 1887 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Doyle 1981, p. 22) published several fictional cases involving Sherlock Holmes such as A Study in Scarlet in Beeton s Christmas Annual of London, where Holmes can tell at a glance different soils from each other. .. has shown me splashes upon his trousers, and told me by their color and consistence in what part of London he had received them. In 1891 in The Five Orange Pips, Holmes observed, chalk-rich soil ... 

O-R [1], kO-R [0.1] [inhibition of Forskolin-stimulated cAMP production via pO-R [26 nM], SO- R [3], kO-R [2] addictive, analgesic, antitussive, sedative, spasmolytic, toxic] Hermann Goring, WW2 Luftwaffe C-in-C, morphine addict (1925) laudanum (opium) used by Mrs Robinson in alleged murder of Bertie Robinson, allegedly plagiarized cuckolded by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (The Hound of the Thomas de Quincey (Confessions Baskervilles) eighteenth-... 

We lead off with these quotes because they illustrate two observations. First, if one judges by the number of references to chemistry in Western literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it would appear that chemical literacy was once more common. From Arthur Conan Doyle to Emily Dickinson, many of these earlier authors displayed a friendly acquaintance with the principles of chemistry and assumed a familiarity on the part of their readers, too. Such allusions to chemistry, unfortu-... 

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventure of the Engineer s Thumb ... 

If you are sure that the problem is one you have encountered before and solved successfiilly, you can simply follow your previous procedure. However, if the problem is or looks as if it is a new problem, you need to follow carefully the recommended checklist outlined in Table 2.4. An expert proceeds in problem solving by abbreviated steps many are done only mentally. A beginner should go through each step explicitly until he or she becomes experienced. For guidance, perhaps you should turn to Sherlock Holmes (as cited in Arthur Conan Doyle s The Naval Treaty ) ... 

Arthur Conan Doyle, "A Scandal in Bohemia," The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1891... 

Nineteenth-century medicine is characterized by investigations at the cellular level (including microbial level), the molecular level, and by even more ruthless combination of observation and hypothetical reasoning. Rational, logical methods were notably a feature by the time of late Victorian medicine. For example, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle s medical school teacher taught the system of observation and deduction that is vividly expressed in Doyle s Sherlock Holmes stories. 

The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Strand Magazine, London, 1901-1902. 

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